Elishiva, Your comments are so interesting. I thought there was a French
ruler who made it law that women had to nurse their own babies because they
knew that the mother's own milk was better. Will have to go look for the
reference. Also, I agree with you on the copyright issue--after having
worked at the University running CE programs--our lawyers said that copying
for a class was illegal. Universities were being given heavy fines. I
stopped it all. For conferences I asked permission from editors and if we
didn't get it we didn't use the article---Many journals won't give
permission and charge $.50-1.50 per page to copy for you! I duplicate a few
articles for my class under the "spontaneous" clause---I think that is what
it is called. Carol
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Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 7:58 AM
Subject: Interesting book
> Re Pat's comment about bottle-feeding just replacing wet-nursing -- yes, I
am
> just finishing another dense but brilliant book, THE FAMILY, SEX AND
MARRIAGE
> IN ENGLAND 1500 - 1800, by Lawrence Stone -- not a new book (1970s maybe)
but
> a classic -- I am reading the abridged edition which is only one volume
but
> also around 600 pages! Stone is very clear that children nursed by
their
> own mothers have also always had a longer life expectancy than children
> otherwise fed, which in this period in England meant wet-nursing (or dry
> nursing, usually because the baby was abandoned and in an institution,
common
> in this period -- of 15,000 babies in the foundling hospital in its first
> year 10,000 died :<).
>
> All the doctors and preachers knew this, and most families knew it too.
But
> wet-nursing was still the overwhelming custom for any family that could
> afford it -- meaning all but paupers, basically -- until the Puritans made
> nursing one's own child an element of wifely virtue in the 1600s. In
fact
> in the late 1600s when even a very few aristocratic women bf their own
kids,
> he has letters from French nobility, writing home to their families in
> astonishment that "In England, even some women of quality nurse their own
> children!!" Stone emphasizes over and over that wetnursing persisted
even
> though everybody knew that it was contrary to the child's health.
>
> In European society, at least, there really seems to have been no golden
age
> for bf.
>
> (it's a great book.)
>
> Elisheva Urbas in NYC, contemplative.
>
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