Frustration wrote: ↑Fri May 20, 2022 8:45 pm
Wet nurses are why Freud came up with his ideas about children sexually desiring their parents, in fact. Rich people have been paying women to nurse the rich people's kids for a long, long time, and still did so until relatively recently.
But generally not because the rich woman couldn't produce enough milk. She simply didn't wish to. It's hard work.
Wet nurses were used not just for the rich.
Think about it... Think about how dangerous giving birth was to women let alone to babies.
Rich didn't do it because they just didn't want to do it. Everyone else had to do it because of necessity.
When the poor used wet nurses, it was often because the mother died, and they generally weren't paid. The rich got to pay people to be wet nurses because they could afford it and they didn't want to nurse.
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