have just finished reading Virginia Henley's :A Year and a Day  for the 2nd
time.it was interesting to see that the main male character was encouraged
to nurse from his wife's lactating breasts when he couldn't keep anything
down after his major abdominal wounds  during the English/Scottish fighting
at Irvine (scotland) - King Edward (Longshanks)Plantagenet's era.

Also the main female charcter insisted on breastfeeding her newborn son
herself instead of having a wet nurse as most of the English upper class
usually did.

I don't know where Virginia Henley got her idea from  but found it quite
interesting after seeing the thread on ill adults /breastmilk here on list.

Anne Clements RN RM BNS
Brisbane QLD
Australia

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