27/03/2025
Before pumps were invented, if you couldn't nurse, you expressed milk by hand (...) this method is still common."
📚The Art of Breastfeeding
9th Edition
(La Leche League International, 2024)
🧡 This sculpture - Idole de fécondité - from the 4th millennium BC is a wonderful depiction of a mother hand expressing milk into a bowl.
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📷 Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Hervé Lewandowski
[Image description: sculpture of a seated woman with her hands on her breasts. There is a bowl balanced on her lap to collect the milk she is expressing.]
