History of Breastfeeding
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The Death of the Wet Nurse
Why did the figure of the wet nurse stop being so popular? I think, again, there's loads of different factors that go into that. A shift in around the 18th century about how we think about motherhood and the image of the maternal mother. One is that ongoing concern that wet nurses are passing on undesirable characteristics of the children.
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