A wet nurse is a woman who breastfeeds and cares for another's child. Wet nurses are employed if the mother dies, if she is unable to nurse the child...

household slaves. During infancy, babies were often nursed and cared for by wet nurses, or nutrix. Nurses were used by families of every social level and...

infant's mother or by a surrogate, typically called a wet nurse. In most societies, women nurse their own babies unless prevented by illness or death...

The Nurse is a character in William Shakespeare's classic drama Romeo and Juliet. She is the personal servant, guardian, and former wet nurse of Juliet...

1887 — 3 February 1946) was a Chinese court lady. She was the imperial wet nurse of Puyi, the last Emperor of China and final ruler of the Qing dynasty...

Animals were used as substitute wet nurses for infants, particularly after the rise of syphilis increased the health risks of wet nursing. Goats and donkeys...

Maia was the wet nurse of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun in the 14th century BC. Her rock-cut tomb was discovered in the Saqqara necropolis...

Deborah (Hebrew: דְּבוֹרָה Deborah) appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wet nurse of Rebecca (Genesis 35:8). She is first mentioned by name in the Torah...

is the daughter of Ops and granddaughter of Peisenor, as well as the wet-nurse of Odysseus. As a girl, Eurycleia was bought by Laertes, Odysseus' father...

of affinity to the wet nurse as in consanguinity, so when the child grows up marriage is prohibited to those related to the wet nurse by the same degree...

from breastfeeding. Lack of other sources of breast milk: Lack of wet nurses: Wet nursing is illegal and stigmatized in some countries, and may not be...

Saitō Toshimitsu (who was a retainer of Akechi Mitsuhide). She was the wet nurse of the third Tokugawa shōgun Iemitsu. Lady Kasuga was one of the best...

There is a commercial market for human breast milk, both in the form of a wet nurse service and as a milk product. As a product, breast milk is exchanged...

Milk Money (乳母, Uba, lit. "Wet Nurse") is a hentai series featuring a woman named Kyoko who, to relieve herself of the pain of her unsuckled milk after...

Maham Anga (died 1562) was the foster mother and chief wet nurse of the Mughal emperor Akbar. She was the political adviser of the teenage emperor and...

Mrs. Pack (died 1694) was a wet nurse to the infant William, Duke of Gloucester (1689–1700); she was believed indispensable to the boy's health, and because...

countess of Tripoli Hodierna of St Albans, mother of Alexander Neckam and wet nurse to Richard I of England 21047 Hodierna This disambiguation page lists...

Sura Al-Qasas, verse 9 According to Islamic belief, Asiya searched for a wet nurse for the baby Moses, but he rejected every woman that attempted to breastfeed...

ordered wet nurses for Musa, Musa refuses to be breastfed. Islamic tradition states that this is because God forbids Musa from being fed by any wet nurse in...

creates space where Black women do not assume stereotypical roles including wet nurse, nanny and maid. Moreover, she simultaneously subverts usual class hierarchies...

Hidetada with Oeyo, and the grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Lady Kasuga was his wet nurse, who acted as his political adviser and was at the forefront of shogunate...

yo ("My wet-nurse and I") Cristina, although not in the painting, is its subject. The painting depicts Frida being breastfed by a wet-nurse as opposed...

book Émile convinced many mothers of the time to nurse their own children, sending babies to wet nurses was still common among the middle and upper classes...

from wet nurses and more affluent parents could hire a wet nurse. Licinia, the wife of Cato the Elder (d. 149 BCE), is reported to have nursed not only...

needed]. The writer Thomas Moffat recorded one physician's use of a wet nurse in a tome first published in 1655. In traditional Islamic law, a child...

Awards. In Copenhagen, young pregnant Karoline takes on a position as a wet nurse for an older woman named Dagmar to help support herself. Dagmar operates...

The concept and use of the wet nurse was very prevalent in 19th century Brazil. Due to their importance, many wet nurses were integrated into members...

behavior known as rooting with which they seek out the nipple. Sometimes a wet nurse is hired to feed the infant, although this is rare, especially in developed...

white baby. They both came to love R. Mammy—Cynara's mother and Other's wet nurse, Mammy doted on Other while neglecting her own daughter. Her masters believe...

The word "nurse" originally came from the Latin word "nutrire", meaning to suckle, referring to a wet-nurse; only in the late 16th century did it attain...