I remember reading long ago that there was a country that decreed that a
wet nurse was not allowed to feed more than 7 babies at one time. I don't
know whether it is true but it brings a smile to think about it.

I see clients who I know would make good wet nurses if that were still a
accepted occupation. When did it lose favor?  I'm sure that it is still
practiced somewhere.  And our present-day milk bank is a medicalized
continuation of the practice.

I doubt that there is a universal limit to the amount of milk women can
produce but I suspect that a given woman has her own limit.  I have found
that most of my clients find it easier to make more milk with each
subsequent birth. This becomes of note when they struggled to have enough
in an earlier experience.

Patricia Gima
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