Early Modern Breastfeeding Problem in Sweden: Failures to Securely Attach?
Väre, Tiina (2024-09-04)
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04.09.2024
Väre, T. (2024). Early Modern Breastfeeding Problem in Sweden: Failures to Securely Attach?. In: Lipkin, S., Bell, T., Väre, T. (eds) Archaeologies of Attachment. Themes in Contemporary Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66570-7_3
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© 2024 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Archaeologies of Attachment: Emotional Attachments in the Archaeological Record. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66570-7_3
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© 2024 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Archaeologies of Attachment: Emotional Attachments in the Archaeological Record. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66570-7_3
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Abstract
Breastfeeding is held in high regard as the foundation of lifelong somatic but also psychological well-being. It profoundly affects the formation of attachment between the infant and the primary caregiver. Much like the current official recommendations, in the past, full breastfeeding was typically encouraged. Yet, it is known to have been avoided out of vanity as well as necessity. In Sweden, the short breastfeeding periods during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries particularly in certain areas of present-day Finland (at the time part of Sweden) and the related massive infant mortality raised the concerns of contemporary officials. This chapter asks whether breastfeeding practices can be linked to attachment styles of the past or whether they should function as a basis for conversations about how children were perceived as members of the family and society at large.
Breastfeeding is held in high regard as the foundation of lifelong somatic but also psychological well-being. It profoundly affects the formation of attachment between the infant and the primary caregiver. Much like the current official recommendations, in the past, full breastfeeding was typically encouraged. Yet, it is known to have been avoided out of vanity as well as necessity. In Sweden, the short breastfeeding periods during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries particularly in certain areas of present-day Finland (at the time part of Sweden) and the related massive infant mortality raised the concerns of contemporary officials. This chapter asks whether breastfeeding practices can be linked to attachment styles of the past or whether they should function as a basis for conversations about how children were perceived as members of the family and society at large.
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