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Nurse feeding baby milk in a bottle.

The Milk Banks of New York

Milk banks, a successor concept to wet nursing, are a little discussed part of the contemporary landscape of infant care.
by Katrina Gulliver, Mathilde Cohen, Hannah Ryan, Iain McLean, Jo Poulton via JSTOR Daily on June 16, 2023
Baby in an old wicker stroller.

The Imperative to Buy the Best Stroller

The baby stroller is only the most visible symbol of the ethos of consumer capitalism that saturates American pregnancy and parenthood.
by Amanda Parrish Morgan, Samuel J. Sewell, Janelle S. Taylor via JSTOR Daily on October 17, 2022
Black and white photo of a white woman holding a baby.

Can Every Baby Be A Gerber Baby? A Century of American Baby Contests And Eugenics

In 2018, Gerber selected baby Lucas as the winner of its Spokesbaby Contest, making Lucas the first Gerber baby with Down syndrome.
by Jamie Marsella via Nursing Clio on August 23, 2022
Up close picture of a baby bottle.

What Parents Did Before Baby Formula

The shortage is a calamity—not a victory for breastfeeding.
by Carla Cevasco via The Atlantic on May 18, 2022

“Weaponized Babies”; or, Damn, Why Didn’t I Think of Using That Term?

Babies have been playing in the political arena for a long time.
by Janet Golden via Nursing Clio on April 23, 2018

Weighing the Baby

When did the practice of weighing newborns begin? And why?
by Deborah Warner via National Museum of American History on July 10, 2017
A woman holding her head in distress, and a naked woman sitting on an illustration of a toy car pulled by string.

Frog-Free

The demystification of pregnancy.
by Erin Maglaque via London Review of Books on April 17, 2025
A medieval drawing of a stork.
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Exit, Pursued by a Stork

When the 1930 Hays Code banned pregnancy in film, birds took over the business of birth.
by Victoria Sturtevant via HNN on December 17, 2024
A baby awaiting adoption near Guatemala City.

Guatemala’s Baby Brokers: How Thousands of Children Were Stolen For Adoption

Baby brokers often tricked Indigenous Mayan women into giving up newborns; kidnappers took others. International adoption is now seen as a cover for war crimes.
by Rachel Nolan via The Guardian on January 4, 2024
Knitted baby booties.

Civil War Surprises: We Didn't Know She Was Pregnant

During the Civil War, women secretly enlisted as men in the Union Army. No one suspected a thing...until they gave birth.
by Sarah Kay Bierle via Emerging Civil War on April 28, 2023
Baby Drew in a dress and sitting on a chair, 1913.

Boys in Dresses: The Tradition

It’s difficult to read the gender of children in many old photos. That’s because coding American children via clothing didn’t begin until the 1920s.
by Matthew Wills, Jo B. Paoletti via JSTOR Daily on April 11, 2023
Collage of images of fetuses and placentas.

Fetal Rites

What we can learn from fifty years of anti-abortion propaganda.
by S. C. Cornell via The Drift on October 27, 2022
A toddler at a small table eat a plate of food with a large glass of milk.

Empathy in the Archive: Care and Disdain for Wet Nursing Mothers

The complex story of wet nurses and their children in the time before the advent of baby formula.
by Anna K. Danziger Halperin via Nursing Clio on October 11, 2022
Empty shelves in a grocery store, specifically an aisle for infant formula products.
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Lessons From World War II Can Help us Navigate the Baby Formula Shortage

Children from poor families or with special formula needs are most at risk.
by Janet Golden via Made By History on May 15, 2022
A hand holding the hand of a baby doll.

The Strange Tradition of “Practice Babies” at 20th-Century Women’s Colleges

A photo archive shows college coeds vacuuming, preparing baby bottles, diapering babies, and generally practicing at motherhood.
by Megan Culhane Galbraith via Hyperallergic on May 2, 2021
Cartoon of babies in petrie dishes.

A Long Incubation

It took hundreds of years of research to develop in-vitro fertilization or IVF.
by Eleri Harris via The Nib on March 15, 2021
Cover of "Little Lindy is Kidnapped"

We Had Witnessed an Exhibition

A new book about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping focuses on the role played by the media.
by Chris Yogerst via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 24, 2020

Meanings and Materials of Miscarriage: How Babies in Jars Shaped Modern Pregnancy

In late-nineteenth-century America, the miscarried fetus became a scientific specimen.
by Shannon Withycombe via Nursing Clio on October 31, 2018

Orphan Utopia

The story of a spiritual visionary who in 1884, set out to create a colony of orphans in the New Mexico desert.
by Reed McConnell via Cabinet on August 15, 2017
Leonardo Dicaprio in "Titanic."

Which Celebrities Popularized (or Tarnished) Baby Names? A Statistical Analysis

Which public figures impacted baby naming trends?
by Daniel Parris via Stat Significant on January 8, 2025
Wet-nurse strike in Chicago, 1937.

No Money, No Milk

Black wet nurses made a show of militance in 1937.
by Dana Frank via Hammer & Hope on July 23, 2024
Pregnant woman.

What the Shadowy History of Women’s Health Tells Us About Its Uncertain Future

Clare Beams on the dark legacy of a purported pregnancy miracle drug.
by Clare Beams via Literary Hub on April 9, 2024
Collage of images of death certificates and related images.

Smithsonian Targeted D.C.’s Vulnerable to Build Brain Collection

The Smithsonian museum’s collection of human remains contains dozens of brains from vulnerable Washington, D.C., residents, many taken without consent.
by Nicole Dungca, Claire Healy via Washington Post on December 14, 2023
Child in iron lung.

How the Iron Lung Transformed Polio Care

In 1928, two Americans invented a large metal breathing device that would become synonymous with polio treatment.
by Hannah Wunsch via UnDark on May 19, 2023
Picture of a worried young mother holding a sleeping newborn baby.
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Whose Breast is Best?: "Mom-shaming" in the British Atlantic World

Claims that mothers lacking formula should just breastfeed repeats a centuries-old mistake.
by Laura Earls via Made By History on May 18, 2022
Vice President Harris speaks during a Maternal Health Day of Action event in the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, D.C., Dec. 7.
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History Shows How to Fix the U.S.'s Abysmal Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates

The maternal health intervention from a century ago that worked.
by Michelle Bezark via Made By History on December 19, 2021
black and white photos of children

The Magazine That Helped 1920s Kids Navigate Racism

Mainstream culture denied Black children their humanity—so W. E. B. Du Bois created The Brownies’ Book to assert it.
by Anna E. Holmes via The Atlantic on February 12, 2021

You Know Karen

She's been having a moment — and that's not a good thing. Using baby name data, we found other names that are equally as “Karen” as Karen.
by Jan Diehm, Sara Stoudt, Amber Thomas via The Pudding on July 16, 2020
People standing in line at a detention center, watched by an enforcement officer.

America’s Long History of Imprisoning Children

Through slavery, Indian boarding schools, Japanese internment, mass incarceration, and anti-Communist wars against civilian populations in Latin America.
by Laura Briggs via Literary Hub on June 19, 2020

Eugenic Sperm

A "test tube baby" grapples with the dark corners of 20th century reproductive technologies.
by Karen Weingarten via Nursing Clio on February 24, 2020
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