From your link: “Breastfeeding rates began rising again in the late 1950s and early 1960s.”
I agree. It came back into vogue and numbers “began rising again” about the time Barry 0 hatched.
Your family was apparently part of the resurgence.
But breastfeeding didn’t again gain wide acceptance until the back-to-nature movement in the late 60s, early 70s. Earth mothers and all that.
My post, like yours, was from personal experience. My family and our friends.
I was not born into affluence. I was a lower middle income kid in the Los Angeles Basin, my entire neighborhood was filled with young families, and I watched it every day, I went to PTA meetings with my mom and saw it there, I saw it at grocery stores, movies, restaurants...This is very clear to me. I am not sure what your socio-economic upbringing was, or if your mother was stay at home or a working mom, but it was prevalent in my upbringing. By the way, My grandparents lived in West Seattle, and I visited them often, and it was rampant there as well. The University District, Kent, Renton, Everett, Queen Ann, all bustling with Breast feeding moms. and by the way, the hippy movement started in the early 1960’s, woodstock happend in the Summer of 1969, but the hippy movement is the early 60’s was the beatnik movement, sans Sausalito, the Embarkadero in SF. In the early 1960’s the hippy movement got its air time in the Haight-Ashbury area. Free love, communes, VW Busses...LOL