Sentences with phrase «by wet nurses»

All the 18 children of Elizabeth Clinton were nursed by wet nurses.

This attitude extended over time, particularly in western Europe, where babies of noble women were often nursed by wet nurses.

Cinnamon, Before the «invention» of powdered formula in the 1860s, almost all babies were breastfed, if not by their biological mothers, then by wet nurses.

Not exact matches

Because you are nursing, the best way to «measure» if baby is eating enough is by keeping an eye on wet and dirty diapers.

On todays show, we learn the definition of wet nursing and we discuss why some mothers might choose to have their baby fed by another mother.

By the first 24 hours, he had nursed a total of 9.3 hours, had zero wet diapers and four dirty diapers.

Success at nursing can be measured by whether the baby seems content afterward, produces at least six wet diapers and several fairly liquid, mustard - colored stools each day and wakes up at least every four hours around the clock to be fed.

It was common as daylight a hundred years ago, when wet nurses were employed by women who couldn't or didn't want to breastfeed.

Yeah, did you know the word came about as a reference to wet nurses, lactating women who were employed by a family to feed the infant?

Oh, and by the way... before bottles and nipples... there were wet nurses!

Wet - nursing is also used by women who are attempting to create a strong breast milk supply when their own babies can't nurse because they are premature or sick.

Islam has recommended breastfeeding for two years till 30 months, either by the mother or a wet nurse.

However, breastfeeding began to be seen as something too common to be done by royalty, and wet nurses were employed to breastfeed the children of the royal families.

Attitudes to breastfeeding itself began to be seen as common; too common to be done by royalty, even in ancient societies, and wet nurses were employed to breastfeed the children of royal families.

Breastfeeding may be performed by the infant's mother or by a surrogate, typically called a wet nurse.

In those instances, if a woman is prohibited by health reasons, the council will provide a wet nurse to her.

The researchers say that they observed children being breastfed by multiple women including the biological mother, and that the practice was distinct from wet nursing (feeding by a substitute for a mother who can not breastfeed).

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.»

Now, China's nouveau riche are bringing it back, recruiting pregnant women, who leave their own child - ren at home with their grandparents (these babies then have to be wet - nursed themselves by another local woman).

Dr. Castillo - Hegyi writes, «By the first 24 hours, he had nursed a total of 9.3 hours, had zero wet diapers and four dirty diapers.

Breastfeeding was typically shunned by those of the nobility, with babies being given to wet nurses for care after delivery.

Other limitations of the included studies were that some studies lacked the distinction between exclusive breastfeeding, defined by the World Health Organization as «the infant has received only breast milk from his / her mother or a wet nurse, or expressed breast milk, and no other liquids or solids, with the exception of drops or syrups consisting of vitamins, mineral supplements or medicines,» and partial breastfeeding, defined by the World Health Organization as «a situation where the baby is receiving some breastfeeds but is also being given other food or food - based fluids, such as formula milk or weaning foods.»

The first is through wet - nursing, which used to be a respectable working - class profession (one in twenty babies born in Paris in 1780 was nursed exclusively by their own mother) and remains common in some parts of the world.

Back in the day, children were breastfed by friends, relatives and even strangers, a common practice referred to as «wet nursing.»

Lester suggests that you allow baby to nurse as he pleases the first six weeks so you really establish supply, but ensure that transfer is sufficient by his four to six wet and four to six dirty diapers per day.

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Even Juliet's wet - nurse (in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) weaned her young nursling at three years old by putting a bad - tasting cream on her nipples.

Whether it is by the birth mother, or what is called a wet nurse breast milk, has always been deemed the most beneficial for newborn babies.

The nurses stop by to make sure everything is ok and ask how many wet diapers there have been and how many times the baby has been fed, noting it down on the chart.

A European team said in an e-mail that they witnessed damage to parts of the cemeteries, although early reports that the tomb of Maya, wet nurse to King Tutankhamen, had been seriously damaged have been discounted by many archaeologists, and the tomb's status remains unclear.

Among them was a South American man, observed by Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, who subbed as wet nurse after his wife fell ill as well as male missionaries in Brazil that were the sole milk supply for their children because their wives had shriveled breasts.

After weaning there is no need to be wet nursed, least of all by an animal.

Caught getting his puppy wet with five prostitutes dressed like Nazi nurses in a London sex dungeon in March, Mosley has been ostracized by the royal pooh - bahs of Bahrain, brushed off by the Prince of Monaco, and pilloried by the automotive press.

I was also inspired by countless books, including Janet Golden's A Social History of Wet Nursing in America, Ann Fessler's The Girls Who Went Away, Howard Brinton's Quaker Journals.