I remember reading that years ago wet nurses would be hired to feed the 
babies of the middle class and upper class, and often the mothers of 
those babies would not want their child nursing on the same breast as 
the mother's real child, so the mother would have to leave her child in 
the care of another to be fed god knows what invented formula, and die.  
So the wet nurse would sell her own milk, literally, and her own baby 
would not benefit from that milk and die.

Joylyn

Cee wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Kim Ann Lorber, LLLeader wrote:
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>>Does the lactation community see problems with moms being compensated
>>for their milk?
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>One argument I've heard is that poor women might be tempted to sell their
>milk instead of giving it to their own babies.  Another is that women
>might be exploited somehow, although I haven't exactly thought that
>theory through.
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>Cee
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