wetnurses

At. Us. Of all Earth's creatures, only man wetnurses himself with the milk of another species.

The Steer's Revenge 2008

A real nanny state would have a slew of government-paid wetnurses.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Politics of Breast Feeding (Ads): 2007

One such principle is that except for the rarest of rarest exceptions (males cannot be wetnurses), ascribed traits such as race, religion, and one hopes sex, may play no role in the public life (housing, education, employment) of citizens.

The Bakke Case: An Exchange Glazer, Nathan P. 1978

Then they committed her to wetnurses and drynurses and governesses who reared her with the fairest rearing, and after she had reached the age of four they brought to her divines who lessoned her in the art of writing and of making selections [FN#181] and presently she approved herself sharp of wits, clever, loquent of tongue, eloquent of speech, sweet spoken of phrase; and every day she increased in beauty and loveliness and stature and perfect grace.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

For an infant no one person is required- not even the biological mother- otherwise the entire concept of adoption- and of course wetnurses- wouldn’t be possible.

Do they really believe that abortion is murder? 2006

At the same time, it doesn’t work for everyone, some people have health issues, some haven’t got enough milk, it ALSO used to be routine in the old days to outsource breastfeeding to wetnurses, if you couldn’t physically do it, afford to take time off from work (yes there were lots of working women blue-collar in the days of the Industrial revolution!) or didn’t want to (aristocratic women rarely nursed their own kids.)

Lady Madonna, baby at your breast… 2005