Feeding of babies and young children with milk from a woman's breast

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While the holy family rest on the way to Egypt, an angel bends a palm tree to provide them with dates. Etching.

Fact sheet. 1, HIV/AIDS: a brief outline / Michele Oliver, Lewisham HIV Unit.

A woman breast feeding two puppies while a Mexican man and woman implore her to feed their baby, which is lying on the floor on a bed of straw. Chromolithograph after A. Utrillo Viadera.

HIV & AIDS : information about mothers and children with HIV infection / written by Rosie Claxton for the Terrence Higgins Trust.

Telephus (son of Hercules) being suckled by a doe in the temple of Athena where as an infant he was left to die. Colour photogravure after a mural at Herculaneum.

A baby holding a rattle: promoting breastfeeding in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Unicef, ca. 1997.

A woman sitting outside with a friend breast-feeding her child, a goat accompanies them. Etching by D. Deuchar.

Yasoda breast-feeding the baby Krishna. Gouache.

Joseph reads from the Bible while the Virgin Mary breast feeds Jesus. Etching by S. della Bella.

The Virgin Mary breast feeding Christ while John the Baptist and Saint Elizabeth gaze at him in wonder. Engraving by J. Witdoeck after P.P. Rubens.

One of the principal routes of transmission of HIV is from a woman with HIV to her baby during pregnancy, birth or breast feeding : 3% of all women attending antenatal clinics in Mumbai (Bombay) are testing HIV positive / NPL, The Naz Project, an HIV/AIDS service for the South Asian, Middle Eastern & North African communities.

A woman breastfeeding her child among her family. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. van Ostade, 1641.

Contribution à l'étude de la transmission de la syphilis par l'allaitement : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 15 avril 1905 / par Paul Paolantonacci.

Breasts across motherhood : lived experiences and critical examinations / edited by Patricia Drew and Rosann Edwards.

The simplicity of breast-feeding / Prue Thorner.

Childbirth without fear : the principles and practice of natural childbirth / by Grantly Dick-Read, M.A., M.D.(Cantab.).

Contemporary patterns of breast-feeding : report on the WHO Collaborative Study on Breast-Feeding.

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Breast Feeding

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Images referencing Breast Feeding

Works from the collections

Contribution à l'étude de la transmission de la syphilis par l'allaitement : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 15 avril 1905 / par Paul Paolantonacci.

Breasts across motherhood : lived experiences and critical examinations / edited by Patricia Drew and Rosann Edwards.

The simplicity of breast-feeding / Prue Thorner.

Childbirth without fear : the principles and practice of natural childbirth / by Grantly Dick-Read, M.A., M.D.(Cantab.).

Contemporary patterns of breast-feeding : report on the WHO Collaborative Study on Breast-Feeding.

Breast Feeding

Images from the collections

Images referencing Breast Feeding

Works from the collections

Contribution à l'étude de la transmission de la syphilis par l'allaitement : thèse présentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de médecine de Montpellier le 15 avril 1905 / par Paul Paolantonacci.

Breasts across motherhood : lived experiences and critical examinations / edited by Patricia Drew and Rosann Edwards.

The simplicity of breast-feeding / Prue Thorner.

Childbirth without fear : the principles and practice of natural childbirth / by Grantly Dick-Read, M.A., M.D.(Cantab.).

Contemporary patterns of breast-feeding : report on the WHO Collaborative Study on Breast-Feeding.

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