I didn’t expect to write a wet nursing post past Friday but I had an experience on Tuesday that I really wanted to write about, and it has to do with inter-species nursing. I was out for a walk with my daughters. It was a beautiful day and I was itching for some Spring flowers [...]
I was interested to explore what Renaissance wet nurses might have eaten. There was no refrigeration back then, and food was a matter of social class, as well as region and season. Meats were served either fresh or preserved through a process of salting. Vegetables were eaten seasonally and stored in underground pantries. Grains were [...]
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Today, real wet nursing is rare. It runs a steep price tag and it is so taboo in present culture that you would be hard pressed to find a wet nurse willing to talk to the media. Unless of course you’re the woman from the video in yesterday’s post, Wet Nursing & Cross Nursing in [...]
It has been two years since modern day wet nursing hit the media, on The Today Show (see below) and in Time Magazine. Since I was trying to recuperate from just having a baby I wasn’t spending much time on the computer back then, so when I decided to do a series of wet nursing/cross [...]
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Wet nurse – (def.) A woman who completely breastfeeds a child that is not her own, often for pay. For the sake of this post, the wet nursing history I reference is European and American. The scope of writing an article about wet nursing in other cultures was too immense for me to take on [...]
<a href =”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1518512/” >Would you nurse another woman’s baby?</a> <br/> <span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”> (<a href =”http://www.polldaddy.com”> polls</a>)</span> When my daughters were babies I made it perfectly clear to all my lactating friends, that if there were ever a natural disaster and they had my babies, and I couldn’t get to them, I would expect these [...]
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