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History of Breastfeeding

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Wet Nurses in Ancient Egypt

We do know that wet nurses were really kind of celebrated and appreciated. If you wet nursed a royal baby, then you would be given a high status. Your own children would be afforded the title of kind of royal milk kin. And so they were represented in tomb paintings.

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