History of Breastfeeding
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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The Importance of Wet Nursing
For very, very wealthy people, wet nursing was a sign of status. There's actually been cases recently of women inducing lactation in themselves without giving birth. Same sex couples can induce lactation by stimulating the nipple and trying to express milk. But for a wet nurse, so long as they've lactated at something, you can just keep going. Just keep going.
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