Observations upon the Proper Nursing of Children, Edinburgh Magazine, June 1761, pp. 304-5. A child, when it comes into the world, is almost a round ball: it is the nurse’s part to assist nature in bringing it to a proper…
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Wetnursing
Last year, Salama Hayek made headlines when she breastfed another women’s child in Sierra Leone, having to defend her actions and even justify why she was not ‘stealing’ [!!] milk from her own daughter. Yet, wet-nursing (breastfeeding another woman’s child)…