Category: Babies

• Dutch Baby c.1664 | Jan Steen | Quick Art History

  

  This painting by Jan Steen features common baby accessories from the 17th century: teethers, falling caps, and leading strings:

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 25, 2020

  Babies, Video

  17th century, art history, baby clothes, baby proofing, Dutch, falling cap, generational, Jan Steen, leading strings, learning to walk, painting, rattle, Rembrandt, teether, teething, toddler, walking

• “A Young Woman nursing a baby” 1868 | Jacob Maris | Quick Art History Video

  

  A young woman nursing a baby, was painted in 1868 by Dutch landscape painter, Jacob Maris. He was living in Paris when he painted this portrait of his wife Catharina Hendrika Horn breastfeeding their first baby, Guillaume [gee-um] who was born in April of 1868 and tragically died the following March. Based on a pencil…

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 11, 2020

  Babies, Video

  19th century, art history, breastfeeding, censorship, infant loss, infant mortality, jacob maris, mother

• Humoral Medicine | Pregnancy, Birth, and Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages

  

  Learn about the humoral theory and it’s ideas about pregnancy, birth, and infant care including breastfeeding.

  Aradia Wyndham

  December 21, 2019

  Babies, Birth, Pregnancy, Video

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• Beatrice Baxter Ruyl

  

  Beatrice Baxter Ruyl was a progressive, well-educated woman who came of age at the turn of the 20th century. She worked as an illustrator and author, focusing on depictions of the Zuni Pueblo, but she is best recognized as the subject of breastfeeding photography by Gertrude Kasebier in the early 1900’s.

  Aradia Wyndham

  December 9, 2019

  Babies

  20th century, Abenaki, artifical feeding, Artist, Beatrice Baxter Ruyl, biography, Boston, bottle feeding, breastfeeding, diarrhea, early photography, First Nations, formula, Fred Holland, Gertrude Kasebier, infant mortality, intensive mothering, Käsebier, Maine, motherhood, New England, socialite, United States, Zuni Pueblo

• Measles in the Tudor Era | King Edward VI

  What was measles like for people before vaccination? Watch or read about measles in the Tudor era.

  Aradia Wyndham

  October 21, 2019

  Babies, Video

  16th century, book history, contagion, England, featured, herbology, history of measles, history of medicine, humoral, illness, immunity, immunization, King Edward VI, measles, medicine, medieval, mmr, pediatrics, smallpox, The Boke of Chyldren, Thomas Phaer, tuberculosis, Tudor, vaccination, vaccine

• Syrian Baby Carriers in Ancient Egypt

  

  An Egyptologist from 1904 considers the infant carriers found on a 3,500 year old tomb wall.

  Aradia Wyndham

  September 24, 2019

  Babies, Video

  18 dynasty, Ancient Egypt, anthropology, art history, asiatics, babywearing, back carry, Egyptian, Egyptology, featured, linen bag, Max W Muller, Middle Kingdom, mothers, rosetta stone, slavery, syria, syrian, Theban Necropolis, Thebes, tribute

• How to Breastfeed in 1913 | Dr Tuley

  

  In 1913, breastfeeding was highly recommended by medical professionals due to the high infant mortality associated with cow milk substitutes. But how were new mothers educated about breastfeeding? The recommendations might surprise you. Boracic acid, anyone?

  Aradia Wyndham

  September 17, 2019

  Babies, Blog, Video

  1913, artifical feeding, baby, bad mothers, book history, boracic acid, bottle feeding, breastfeeding, breastfeeding position, Breastmilk, breastmilk composition, colic, colostrum, contraindications for breastfeeding, corset, cosleeping, cracked nipples, diet, Diseases of Children, Dr. Tuley, exercise, featured, feeding schedule, flat nipples, food intolerance, good mothers, holt, hygiene, inverted nipples, low supply, malabsorbtion, medications in breastmilk, neonatal weight loss, nipple shield, nutrition, premature infant, social life, starvation temperature, supplementation, tight clothing, wetnurse

• Crawling is Cultural… and Unnecessary

  

  What if crawling is unnecessary? There are cultures in which babies are not allowed to crawl and are never given floor time. What effect does that have on their development?

  Aradia Wyndham

  July 24, 2019

  Babies, Blog, Video

  A world of babies, Aboriginal, alma gottlieb, ancient, animalistic, Australia, baby proofing, babywearing, back to sleep, Bali, Barbara Rogoff, behavorial problems, Beng, bugaboo, carrying, Central America, central anatolia, Central Desert, child sacrifice, childrens bureau, Coolamon, Cornell India Project, Cornell University, corporeal punishment, crawling positions, crawling robot, culture, danger, delay, depth perception, developmental milestones, dirt cough, disability, featured, fireplaces, grandmothers, Hatsumi Maretzki, Hogbin, hypotonia, independence, India, Indonesia, infant carriers, infant development, James Doyle, Japan, John T. Hitchcock, Judy Deloache, learning disabilities, Leigh Minturn, Met Museum, neurological development, New Guinea, Nyabutan, Okinawa, Old Law, Olmec, Parraja, pulling up, put baby on the ground, Rajput, roomba, siblings, Six Cultures, socioeconomics, Sophia Peirroutsakos, stroller, Sunil Agrawak, superivison, superstitions, Taira, teaching, tete, The afterlife is where we come from, The Cultural Nature of Human Development, Thomas Maretzki, toys, tummy time, Turkey, walking, Warlpiri, Wogeo, work

• The Boke of Chyldren | Tudor Pediatrics

  

  Imagine a world where there are no books about keeping your baby healthy in your language, even in your country: that was the case in England until Thomas Phaer published “The Boke of Chyldren” in 1544.

  Aradia Wyndham

  May 10, 2019

  Babies, Blog, Video

  16th century, art history, bedwetting, book history, breastfeeding, colic, cradle cap, domestic manual, early modern, England, epilepsy, history, humoral, infant care, infant sleep, literacy, magic, medicine, medieval, metaphysical, nightmares, religion, teething, The Boke of Chyldren, Thomas Phaer, Tudor

• The Aymara People of the Andes

  

  Learn how the Aymara tradition of carrying their babies is reflected in their concept of time and language– and how infant carriers built empires.

  Aradia Wyndham

  March 16, 2019

  Babies, Blog

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