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The Milk of Life

Gastropod

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Breast Feeding Is a Death Sentence

In the past, one and 20 women could have died in childbirth sothere might mam. Even if the mother didn't die, sometimes breast beating still wasn't an option. Impoverished women or enslaved women have always needed return to work soon after birth. Wet nurse is the old school name for a woman that breast feeds a baby that's not her own.

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