Sentences with phrase «wet nursing during»

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Interestingly, maternal health practices during the 1920s and 1930s relied heavily on using formula instead of breastfeeding or using a wet nurse.

Wear a fresh, clean nursing bra every day, and change it during the day if it gets soiled or wet.

During the Victorian era in the mid to late 1800s, affluent women rarely breastfed their own children and hired out the «work» to a wet nurse.

Dr. Suzanne Gilberg - Lenz, the OB - GYN expert on momlogic.com, finds the whole thing an ironic twist on America's history of breastfeeding, which includes black wet nurses forced to breastfeed the slave owners» children during slavery and Victorian - era women who paid other women to nurse their children so they didn't have to be stuck at home.

Employing wet nurses, which had been a common practice among wealthier women, became less common as wet nursing, most often performed by poor women, immigrants, and women of color, became more stigmatized, and as safer breast milk alternatives, such as sterilized condensed milk, became available.25 Instead, during this «chemical period» in infant feeding, medical authorities took charge, partially by devising complicated «percentage» formulas only they could administer as breast milk replacements.26 As Rima Apple and others have amply shown, the result was the «medicalization of motherhood,» or «scientific motherhood.»

Also he is extremely tired during nursing, at best I can get him to eat 10 - 15 minutes total and that is doing everything from diaper change, undressing, wet rag, talking, using lights, ect.

During the wedding reception my friend Devon (who happens to be Carla's daughter) ended up wet - nursing my sixteen month old.

Wet nursing, which involves one woman breastfeeding another woman's child, became popular in many societies, particularly if a mother was too ill to breastfeed or had died during childbirth.