25 Historical Images that Normalize Breastfeeding

1. A Mother Feeding Her Baby at a Chattanooga Bus Stop – 1943

2. A Mother Feeding Her Baby at the Beach – 1930s

3. Depression-era Breastfeeding

4. French Mothers in a Paris Doctors Office Waiting Room – 1946

5. Breastfeeding in Church – 1871

6. Mother and Baby – c.1900

7. Breastfeeding on Sesame Street – 1977

8. Leonardo Da Vinci Painting of Mary and Jesus

9. Breastfeeding at an Outdoor Meeting

10. Japanese Art Depicting Breastfeeding – 1700s

11. “Hi Mom!” Vintage Postcard

12. Children’s Book Depicting Breastfeeding and Bottle Feeding

13. Nursing Outside

14. Breastfeeding in the 1950s

15. 1920s

16. Victorian Era Mother and Baby

17. Front Porch – 1898

18. Gabriel Joseph de Froment, Baron de Castille, Princess Hermine Aline Dorothée de Rohan and Family – 19th Century

19. 1891

20. Wyspiański – Breastfeeding Painting – 1905

21. Part of the Family

22. WPA Breastfeeding Advocacy Poster – 1930s

23. AND WHAT ABOUT…

24. But this…

25. So Now You Know…