Historical NIP photos

[karinothing]

pretty cool!

www.buzzfeed.com/morganshanahan/stunning-portraits-of-breastfeeding-mothers-throughout-hi#.drXaMLGEQ

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I love these. I feel like being as exposed as they are in these pics is somewhat frowned upon today. Not that they were terribly exposed. I also love how beautifully dressed they are. I feel liek I can barely put myself together and these women have multi-piece outfits on.

Somewhat related, Im taking a class on breastfeeding photography this week. Im so darn excited and hope it will help me get better pictures of myself than the random selfies I took with DD attempting to grab the iphone away.

[Willis Jackson]

#6 looks like Mindy Kaling.

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Do you think NIP was really no big deal before? Everyone just accepted it? What happened between then and now that NIP has the potential to cause such issues?

Is it just since the modernization of formula and bottles that people decided nursing was no longer necessary and therefore not acceptable to be done in public?

I don't understand what happened to get to where we are today.

[thebreakfastclub]

If #2 is what breastfeeding nipples look like, that would explain why my son didn't latch. Wow

[anna7602]

Oct 5, 2015 7:41:41 GMT -5 @awinter said:

Do you think NIP was really no big deal before? Everyone just accepted it? What happened between then and now that NIP has the potential to cause such issues?

Is it just since the modernization of formula and bottles that people decided nursing was no longer necessary and therefore not acceptable to be done in public?

I don't understand what happened to get to where we are today.

I don't know much about the introduction of formula here, but in my parents' home country, it was very much introduced as "this is how civilized people feed their children" and formula-feeding became a lifestyle aspiration among those of a certain class and background. My father still remembers wet nurses being around when he was a kid in the 1940s and by the time his kids were born in the 1960s, my mother was very much on the "we need to use formula" train. I can't even imagine how she stuck to that given how radically things were changing around her at the time and the fact that she emigrated with my brother when he was just three months old. It seems like BFing would have been easier to rely on than the uncertainty of whether formula would be for sale the next day or whether she'd be able to afford it once she left the country? Regardless, she felt so strongly about it that by the time I was born a decade later, she got the shot to dry up her milk at the hospital. 

Once all the middle and upper-class people left, however, the pendulum swung back to BFing as usual in my parents' home country and both NIP and extended BFing (to the toddler years) are very much accepted there now. Everyone assumed I was still nursing DD when I took her there at 22 months and I saw women NIP on buses and out and about everywhere. 

[sjh722]

These are beautiful.

[laurack]

beautiful pictures.