Folk Stories

Breastfeeding has been happening for as long as our species has existed, along with folklore, which LLL is working to revive

Food Suggestions

Sunflower seeds have high magnesium which will help with your supply during menstruation.

Potions

cracked nipples remedy: strip the bark from a black alder
tree, bake it with water in a bean pot for 24 hours, mix with honey, and
drink slowly. When the raw trunk of the alder heals in a week, so will the nipple.

(Walter 1975)

Personal Narratives

"This is the way I would massage my breasts to up my milk supply"

Old Wives Tales

"Do not nurse in an automobile

because the baby will get 'gas."

Citation

Walter, Marie. 1975. “The Folklore of Breastfeeding.” Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 51 (7): 870–76.