The following quote is from US NEWS & WORLD REPORT. Issue 9/4/95. This is an
interview with a woman named Ora Glass who is 103 yrs. old:
...I gave birth in a regular hospital in Omaha. I don't remember having any
painkillers. After the birth, I stayed in the hospital to be a wet nurse,
because I had so much milk and my boy only took one breast because one breast
had an inverted nipple. He didn't like that one. Sometimes, they'd pump the
milk out of my breast to feed other babies, and sometimes they'd bring the
white babies in. About 3 or 4 needed nourishment every day-something was wrong
with their mothers. I stayed in the hospital for a few months just to help
these babies out.  The hospital was segregated. A lot of Negro mothers in there
said, "I don't see how you can do that," I said, "They need nourishment. Why be
so cruel when you can help somebody? "

Kathie Tilton, RN, LC
Lahey Hitchcock Clinic
Manchester, NH
USA