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Wooden nipple shield, Europe, 1701-1900
Nipple shields protect mothers from pain while breastfeeding their teething babies and soothe sore nipples. They prevent nipples from flattening, contain leaking milk and help women who had trouble breastfeeding. This wooden example, seen on the left, is alongside a beeswax example (A606832/1) on the right. It has 13 small holes through which milk passed to the feeding baby. Doctors of this period…
Creator
- Science Museum, London
Subject
- nipple shield
Creator
- Science Museum, London
Subject
- nipple shield
Providing institution
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- Credit: Science Museum, London
Source
- L0065013
Identifier
- L0065013
- Science Museum A124876
- xagma8w2
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- United Kingdom
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First time published on Europeana
- 2019-06-09T12:22:21.125Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-06-09T12:22:21.125Z