I remember years ago hearing that in Europe two or three generations ago, wet
nurses nursed infants that were left with foundling homes.

A wet nurse was "not allowed to breastfeed more than SIX babies at one time!

When I did a 5-day course at Georgetown Univ. on breastfeeding in preparing
for my exam to become IBCLC,  I remember also hearing of a mom of quints that
breastfed all of them.  She preferred, so the story went...... to nurse only
one at a time so she could easily move around and supervise the other people
helping her with the infants.

Opal Horvat, BA, IBCLC
Bergenfield, NJ