This unforgettable ‘Sesame Street’ episode is considered to be the first depiction of breastfeeding on TV

The singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie made history in 1977 when she fed her infant on Sesame Street. The Indigenous Canadian American singer-songwriter was not doing anything unusual; she was feeding her kid. However, the fact that she was breastfeeding him was important because breastfeeding in the United States had reached an all-time low in 1971 and … Read more