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nipple shileds from the 'olden days'
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Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:38:42 GMT
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Jacie says:  we saw a pewter nipple shield!

If youall look in Valerie Fildes "Bottles Breasts and Babies" you will see her
pics including silver and (my favourite) *lead* nipple shields in use from the
17th century.

The mix of fascination and horror at the idea of using these rigid objects --
not to mention the idea of the lead residues! -- to facilitate breastfeeding is
matched for me only by uneasy wonderings:  what practices or devices of ours
will future generations of women/breastfeeding helpers regard with the same
feelings of "How ON EARTH did they come to think THAT was going to help???"

Magda Sachs
Breastfeeding Supporter
The Breastfeeding Network, UK

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