Not exact matches
Although, in the eras when dying in childbirth was common, I can see how the need for
wet nurses was integral to raising
healthy babies.
A
wet nurse may have a
healthy breast milk supply from breastfeeding her own child, or she may stimulate a supply of breast milk specifically for another woman's child.
«For those few health situations where infants can not, or should not, be breastfed, the choice of the best alternative - expressed breast milk from an infant's own mother, breastmilk from a
healthy wet -
nurse or human - milk bank, or a breast - milk substitute fed with a cup...» [3]
expressed breast milk from an infant's own mother, breast milk from a
healthy wet -
nurse or a human - milk bank, or a breastmilk substitute...» in that order.