And currently being practised in a wide scale fashion, in China.  Mother 
is a nanny in the city, wet-nursing the client's baby.

Baby is in the village, being fed powdered formula by grandmother. 

Morgan Gallagher

heather wrote:
> I found this story to be utterly heart-breaking.
>
> It is meant to be up-lifting, , by the tone of the report, but it 
> reminds me of the 19th century Western practice (happened at many 
> other times and places, too, including Roman times)  of taking poor 
> mothers away from their babies to live with the upper classes in order 
> to be a wet-nurse.
>
> Heather Welford Neil
> NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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