Sentences with phrase «choose wet nursing»

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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.

Laws against buying and selling breast milk, established only in the last century, would have likely shocked women in the 1700s and 1800s, when it was common for wet nurses to nourish children whose mothers chose not to breastfeed or could not do so.

So why did Kate choose a wet - nurse over bottle feeding?

I suggested donor milk, as according to the WHO (2003), when the mother can not or chooses not to breastfeed, the next best alternative is pumped milk from the mother, a wet nurse or donor milk from a human - milk bank, or an approved breast - milk substitute (p. 17).