Artificial feeding technologies were an immediate priority at maternal and child welfare centres. As they involved a set of instruments and rules external to and separate from women's bodies, they reinforced the technical orientation of infant hygiene, while at the same time such tendency became more suitable to social needs arising from the industrial tendency that drove women outside the home Wolf, 2001.
Y es que el compromiso técnico de la Puericultura se reforzó en el terreno de la lactancia artificial donde más claramente accesibles eran los instrumentos y las reglas externas a los cuerpos de las mujeres, a la vez que permitía atender las necesidades que generaba la irrebatible salida de la mujer del hogar con los menos perjuicios para la salud pública Wolf, 2001.