Tag: mother

• “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

• The Myth of Childbearing Hips | Squished Pt 2 |

  

  These hips don’t lie. They were selected for by evolutionary pressures right along with bigger headed babies. Learn why female humans tend to have wider hips than males and why it has little to do with birth.

  Aradia Wyndham

  October 4, 2018

  Birth, Blog

  appeal to tradition, Australopithecus afarensis, bipedal efficiency, Birth, body, childbearing hips, childbirth, cultural lens, diagrams, dunsworth, Epstien, evolution, fallacy, fetal load, fetopelvic disproportion, hips, hominin, IMMR, labor, locomotor costs, lordosis, Lucy, medical myth, molding skull, mother, natural selection, neonate, obstetrical dilemma, obstetrics, rosenberg, warrener, whitcome

• Baby Feet

  

  Human feet are unique in the ape family, made for walking instead of grasping. For our babies this means two fewer grasping limbs to help cling to their mother, which means that during the evolution of bipedalism, infants had a harder time hanging on. How did our ancestors survive?

  Aradia Wyndham

  July 12, 2017

  Blog, Evolution of Babywearing

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