About wet nursing…
Pat Gima asked if this is common anywhere in the world. My colleague Ines
Fernandez in the Philippines has told me it’s quite common there. 

One project of ARUGAAN, the NGO that Ines works with, is to set up crèches
(day care in or near the workplace for infants and toddlers whose mothers
are working). There is strong support for breastfeeding, as well as for
complementary feeding using indigenous foods after six months. Having mom
visit to nurse her baby or cup-feeding with expressed milk are the usual
ways the babies are fed, but wet-nursing is also done when those are not
possible. The wet-nurses are staff members who of course do all the other
child-care tasks too. In one factory, the mothers set up a crèche themselves
in a corner near the workplace, and they took turns staffing it. Whoever was
staffing the crèche would nurse the babies that day. 

Chris Mulford, RN, IBCLC
LLL Leader Reserve
working for WIC in South Jersey (Eastern USA)
Co-coordinator, Women & Work Task Force, WABA
 
 

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