Tag: infant mortality

• A History of SIDS | SIDS Series Pt 1

  

  Today we’ll be looking at the evolving understanding of sudden infant death in history, focusing on the developments in the United States during the 20th century.  Content Warning: This post will discuss sudden infant death, infanticide, and child abuse. If you know that you are uncomfortable with this subject manner then please do not read […]

  Aradia Wyndham

  September 24, 2020

  Babies, Video

  Abe Bergman, Alfred Steinschnieder, apnea, arcutio, Bruce Beckwith, child abuse, childrens bureau, crib death, Dr. Ferber, Dwain Walcher, forensic pathology, Good Housekeeping, history of medicine, infant mortality, infantcide, Irene Garrow, Jacob Werne, Katherine Bain, King Solomon, Marie Noe, McCalls, Milton Helpern, Molly Dapena, overlying, political correctness, postpartum depression, poverty, research, SIDs, smothering, Stuart Asch, suffocation, The Battered Child, the bible, thymic asthma, true crime, United States

• “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

• 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