Here's my favorite reference to breastfeeding in Egypt from Exodus2:

5  . . . She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get
it.
6 She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for
him. "This is one of the Hebrew babies," she said.
7 Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get one of the
Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?"
8 "Yes, go," she answered. And the girl went and got the baby's mother.
9 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this baby and nurse him for me, and
I will pay you." So the woman took the baby and nursed him.

Thanks, Cyndi for showing me my best resource for breastfeeding moms :o)

Joyce, RN, IBCLC

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