When Buffy Sainte-Marie had her first child in 1976, she woke up in the hospital next to a basket of formula. As a Native American, she came from a culture in which best-feeling had been discouraged and even prohibited. So she decided to take the issue into her workplace, breastfeeding her son on an episode of Sesame Street.
The Short-Lived Normalization of Breastfeeding on Television
Mayukh Sen | Hazlitt | January 22, 2018 | 2,490 words
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