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The Milk of Life

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Breast Feeding Is A Death Sentence

Wet nurse is the old school name for a woman that breast feeds a baby that's not her own. This is possible because of another amusing thing about bress milk, and it's that mamory glands will produce more if more is demanded of them. Michael angelo is said to have been brought up by a wet nurse. Mohammed is said to has been brought up with a wet nursea. In Ireland in the late 17 early 18 hundreds, 99% of babies who weren't nursed by their mothers died.

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