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Wet nurse

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 herself sufficiently, or if she chooses not to do so. Wet-nursed children may be known as "milk-siblings", and in some societies, the families are linked by a special relationship of milk kinship.…

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Wet nurse

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related to Notable wet nurses · 38
Wet nurse → Akbar, Burma, China, Chinese, Dai Anga, Emperor, Gao Wei, Great Royal Wet Nurse, Hatshepsut, Her, Iemitsu, In, In Ancient Egypt, In Asia, King Bayinnaung, King Tabinshwehti, King Tutankhamun, Kings, KV60, Lady Kasuga
related to Mythology · 26
Wet nurse → Aeneas, Caieta, Capitoline Wolf, David Malo, Deborah, Esau, Eurycleia, In Burmese, In Greek, In Hawaiian, In Roman, Isaac, Israel, Jacob, King Tabinshwehti, Many, Myaukhpet Shinma, Nuakea, Odysseus, Rebekah
related to Ancient Rome · 17
Wet nurse → Columna Lactaria, Digest, Even, Greek, Imperial, In, Inscriptions, It, Latin, Milk Column, One, Roman, Roman-era Greek, Romans, Rome, Soranus, The
related to Egypt · 17
Wet nurse → Alexandria, Egypt, Enough, From, Jewish, Levantine, Maronites, Married, Melkite, Ottoman, Slovene, Slovenia, The, There, This, Trieste, World War
related to Current attitudes in Western countries · 16
Wet nurse → American Mexican, Americans, Dr, During, For, Hayek's, In, Infant, Rhonda Shaw, Salma Hayek, Sierra Leone, The, UNICEF, United States, Western, When
related to France · 14
Wet nurse → By, France, French, In, In Paris, Louis XIV, Paris, The, The Bureau, This, Théophile Roussel, Wet Nurses, Wet-nursing, With
related to Brazil · 13
Wet nurse → Before, Black, Brazilian, Casa-Grande, During, Enslaved, Furthermore, Gilberto Freyre, In, Sanzala, Some, Thanks, The
related to Relationships · 11
Wet nurse → AD, George III, In, In Vietnamese, Islam, Jane Austen, Nhũ, Royal Household, Sometimes, The Papyrus Oxyrhynchus, United Kingdom
related to United States · 10
Wet nurse → Americans, British, Child-minding, Employed, Many, North America, Since, This, Wet, Workers
related to Current situation elsewhere · 7
Wet nurse → Chinese, Following, HIV, In China, Indonesia, Philippines, Wet

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Wet nurseis awoman who breastfeeds and cares for another's child0.90text
religious dedicationsinstance ofInscriptions0.80text
epitaphs indicate that a nutrix would be proud of her professioninstance ofInscriptions0.80text
the one in this section represent both a historically accurate practice of enslaved black women wet-nursing their owner's white childreninstance ofImages0.80text
as well as sometimes an exaggerated racist caricaturization of a stereotype of ainstance ofImages0.80text
the United Statesinstance ofCurrent attitudes in Western countriesIn contemporary affluent Western societies0.80text
the act of nursing a baby other than one's own often provokes cultural discomfortinstance ofCurrent attitudes in Western countriesIn contemporary affluent Western societies0.80text
Wet nurserelated to Ancient RomeIn0.60section
Wet nurserelated to Ancient RomeRome0.60section
Wet nurserelated to Ancient RomeLatin0.60section
Wet nurserelated to Ancient RomeRoman0.60section
Wet nurserelated to Ancient RomeDigest0.60section

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