The mortality rate amongst wet nursed babies in France in the 19th century was quite high. The reason was that there were wet nurses who were not very scrupulous, and would take many babies to nurse. The wet nurse would have 6, 7, 10 babies from various families, and, of course, could not nurse them all, or perhaps she would nurse none at all. And many died. It's not the fault of "old breastmilk", it's the fault of a bizarre social system and poverty and greed. *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html