In a message dated 98-09-01 08:38:08 EDT, Opal wrote
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 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.
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The story about the mother with quints is an inspiration!

But I wouldn't be too impressed about the wet nurses' numbers:  In some places
and times babies sent to wet nurses had only a 50% chance of making it home
alive to mom.  The limitation of how many babies they could nurse at once was
instituted in many countries specifically to limit wet nurses from taking in
more babies than they could possibly nurse or care for.   Commonly, they would
accept as many paying clients as they could get, then feed them flour-and-
water paste instead of any milk at all, or much.    Presumably the mom with
quads in the original post has a healthier outcome in mind!