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Why letting your baby wet nurse isn't the end of the world. Follow Life with Abby D as she shares her story about how low breastmilk supply, baby not taking a bottle, and friendship led her on a journey of milk sharing, wet nursing, and taking care of each other. | Breastfeeding World | Donor Milk | Wet Nurse | Breastmilk | Milk Sharing | Breastmilk Donation |
![More than 150 years ago, enslaved black women were forced to feed and raise the children of their masters. Under strict guidelines black slaves were required, unwillingly, to wet-nurse these [white] children giving them priority over their own. The alternative, of course, was to be beaten or whipped. The black and white babies were not allowed to share the same breast as it was compared to whites not being able to drink from the same water faucet. The infant mortality rate during this time w... African History, White Babies, Wet Nurse, Black Knowledge, Black And White Baby, We Are The World, Foto Vintage, Historical Facts, Interesting History](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.pinimg.com/474x/79/e9/70/79e9707e24487916bbc32a2b7ea55272.jpg)
More than 150 years ago, enslaved black women were forced to feed and raise the children of their masters. Under strict guidelines black slaves were required, unwillingly, to wet-nurse these [white] children giving them priority over their own. The alternative, of course, was to be beaten or whipped. The black and white babies were not allowed to share the same breast as it was compared to whites not being able to drink from the same water faucet. The infant mortality rate during this time…
Dr Martin Couney found a novel (and let's face it weird) way to prove incubators can save the lives of premature babies
The yummy mummies of Instagram were far from the first to capture photographs of themselves breastfeeding, as these portraits of Victorian women in America demonstrate.
Enroute Indian History ® on Instagram: "Mughal textual sources present a very romantic and positive view of the phenomenon of wet-nursing. Mughal imperial family would rely on the services of wet-nurses with an open mind without judging the practice on the basis of the assumption that maternal breastfeeding was necessarily better than wet-nursing. Interestingly, milk, interpreted as a different form of maternal blood, was seen to convey not only food, but also central character…
Portrait of Comtesse d’Herbouville and Her Children 1804-1806
