"මවුකිරි දීම" හි සංශෝධන අතර වෙනස්කම්

== History of breastfeeding ==

[[ගොනුව:Debret37.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|''Famille d’un Chef Camacan se préparant pour une Fête'' ("Family of a Camacan chief preparing for a Festival") by [[Jean-Baptiste Debret]] shows a woman breastfeeding a child in the background.]]

 

For hundreds of thousands of years, humans, like all other mammals, fed their young milk. Before the twentieth century, alternatives to breastfeeding were rare. Attempts in 15th century Europe to use cow or goat milk were not very positive. In the 18th century, flour or cereal mixed with broth were introduced as substitutes for breastfeeding, but this did not have a favorable outcome, either. True commercial [[infant formula]]s appeared on the market in the mid 19th Century but their use did not become widespread until after [[World War II|WWII]]. As the superior qualities of breast milk became better-established in medical literature, breastfeeding rates have increased and countries have enacted measures to protect the rights of infants and mothers to breastfeed.