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单词 Wetnursing
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Wetnursing

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Wet nurse

Louis XIV as an infant with his nurse Longuet de la Giraudiére
Statuette of a parclose representing a woman who presses her breast to collect milk in a bowl (a satire nourrice). – Stalls (16th century) hbof the Basilica of Saint Materne (11th century) – Walcourt (Belgium).
Mammelokker in Ghent, Belgium (detail)

A wet nurse is a woman who breast feeds and cares for another's child. Wet nurses are employed when the mother is unable or chooses not to nurse the child herself. Wet-nursed children may be known as "milk-siblings", and in some cultures the families are linked by a special relationship of milk kinship. Mothers who nurse each other's babies are engaging in a reciprocal act known as cross-nursing or co-nursing.

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