Rob asks:  " Why are all
these moms in the videos naked?"

At a tangent, I have been reading "A Labour of Love" which is about parenting in
Britain 1900 - 1950 and was also a tv serial a few years ago.  In there its
stated that working class women in that period, most of whom laboured and
birthed at home, did not want their husbands in at the birth *speicifically*
because they did not want to be seen naked.  During their entire marriages these
couples would not see each other naked.  This seems to be the legacy of the very
screwed up Victorian notions of modesty, and the body, which was forced on the
working classes during the 19th century and from which we still suffer.

These notions also impacted on the use of wet-nurses and favoured the use of
modified cow's milk and other foods instead, when choosing an alternative to
breastfeeding.

(Although -- I have just thought of this -- presumably the wife would see her
husband naked if he died before she did, when she was washing him before laying
him out -- does anyone know if the dead were washed naked?)

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter, The Breastfeeding Network, UK

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