Tag: ancient

• Ancient Breastfeeding Advice | Baby History Shorts

  

  Before Galen there was Soranus of Ephesus, a second century physician, who influenced western medicine throughout the next two millennia. He worked within a humoral framework: during pregnancy, menstrual blood is transformed into breastmilk in the breasts and transmitted back to the fetus until birth, when lactation begins. Awful Advice In Gynecologie he advised:  That a…

  Aradia Wyndham

  May 18, 2023

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• Ancient Greek Potty Chairs | Baby History Shorts

  

  In ancient Greece, baby potties doubled as baby chairs, on this wine jug, or chous, from the 5th century bce, the baby is playing with a rattle. At the bottom of a cup a woman interacts with a baby in a potty chair. And on this oil jug, a woman stands next to a baby…

  Aradia Wyndham

  October 10, 2022

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• 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?

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  July 24, 2019

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• 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.

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  March 16, 2019

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