Interesting addition to Hunker's blog (I think, but then I am Hunker...)

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Infant feeding through history. Fledgling (very atm!), but I'll add to it.

lol - no it was you Twwat who made it into a big deal

Hunker - how are you

Can we just get back to business here?

I saw a silver nipple shield yesterday in the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood. And a pewter 'feeding can', like a mini watering can. Wasn't pewter lead and tin mix?

TWWAT - Hunker just happens to know an awful lot about this kind of thing, and regulars are aware of that, so if she puts her name in the thread title, we will click because we know that she often as interesting, useful bits of info. THAT'S ALL.

It's always worth a quick click around a person before making those kind of assumptions. If you had look up Hunkers other posts generally, you would have got a sense of her as a poster, what she's interested in and what she's very well informed about, and concluded, like the rest of us, that she was just doing a bit of public information service. So not self aggrandising - just a bit of good marketing for useful info.

PS Hunker this is sycamoretree using my rank halloween name.

I'm glad to see you around more Hunker. It's been v dull of late.

I put my name in the title sometimes. I find I get more responses that way

and if someone doesn;t like me, they know to avoid me

ROFL @ TWWAT.
Methinks someone didn't think through a choice of username, or subsequent namechange?

i aspire to be a name in the thread mn celeb one day!

That website about baby bottles is fascinating, I'm bookmarking it so I can have a proper look later.

The thing is that hunker isgreat. She is a mumsnet veteran and very well respected even by the longtime lurkers of the BandBF threads (like me).

She is also a human being who does an awful lot of work to keep people informed about BF issues...

i put ny name in the title sometimes i am completely egotistical i think people will thin oh that lvely zippi i will find out if she has a job/how her love life is going

which f cvourse they wouldnt bother to do if it was some dullard unknown

Thanks, chaps

Hunker also needed to be out of the house with two dressed boys half an hour ago...

Byeee!

I have a collection of truly terrible (but v. interesting) parentcraft info booklets [geek] and midwifery textbooks and so on....there is a great picture in one of them of a 'mother preparing to breastfeed'. You'd think she was about to handle nuclear waste. She is seated with a full-length rubber apron on, beside her is a trolley (hospital style) full of cotton wool swabs, cooled boiled water in a jug, and on the top of it, a large alarm clock so she doesn't feed for longer than her allotted x minutes. This dates from the mid-50s.

I couldn't give a rabbits shit to be honest. Ooooh look it almost says twat, how hilarious.

I know, it is, isn't it?

tiktok, would love to see that pic!

do none of you feed with a rubber apron on? I also wear those long gloves that come up to your elbows, and waders.

You can't be too careful with bm, it's lethal stuff

goodness tiktok!

I have and read a wonderful book recently called "Dream Babies" which is a history of childcare advice from the 1700's to the modern day. It is full of fabulous pictures of quite amazing breastfeeding devices and methods. I am guessing most of the pictures are in the public domain. Well worth a read too!

The 'nursing attachment' on this page is amazing! In a list of most pointless inventions that would win.

Oops, forgot link this page

LOL at the caption on that poster!

Thanks for the info hunker.

charcharbagoooooore the bottle holding belt is ridiculous!