wet nurse

A wet nurse is a woman who is lactating—producing breast milk—and feeds another woman’s baby.

As such, the nursery was prepared, wet nurses were on call, and announcement letters were prepared and signed, leaving just the date of delivery and sex of the child to be filled in.

These alternatives included milk from human wet nurses and animal milk.

It is something I saw my mum do when she took care of a baby whose mother had died, until she could find a wet nurse.

He sucks from his 100-year-old wet nurse’s papery nipples until “her pubis would pulsate and emanate a smell.”