@ask_aubry
Wet nurses. Whatever food was around that could be eaten would be fed to babies that needed to be fed. And breastfeeding was a thing more than ten years ago.
I have no idea what point these people are trying to make, but throughout history, babies that needed to be fed were fed.
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Feminist creating breastfeeding in the last 10 years?
I can't even right now.
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@ask_aubry
But wet nurses did breast-feed the babies. Wet nurses were used when the mother was unable to feed her baby. Back before we had commercially produced formula, bottle feeding could be very dangerous for a new born.
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@Liv_F
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"Whatever food was around that could be eaten would be fed to babies that needed to be fed. " Yes. Which is the reason so many babies died when they did not get mothers milk.
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Iām wondering if she ever read the book Milk, Money and Madness. I read it years ago, and my take away was that people have tried to find substitutes for breastfeeding for centuries. Some babies of wet nurses were dry fed as the milk was for the babies of those who paid.
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