How To Use Wet nurse In A Sentence

If an unmarried mother of her first child is engaged as a wet nurse, she should not be "stuffed" or allowed to overeat, which is commonly the result of moving her from her lower life into more comfortable surroundings, or given ale or beer to increase her milk. The Mother and Her Child
Thrse herself fell ill soon after her birth and was sent to a farm to be under the care of a wet nurse. RIDDLE ME THIS
What could be more cooperative than a wet nurse? The Times Literary Supplement
She had a wet nurse for the infant.
Roman writers often accused women of wanting to employ a wet nurse only for the sake of maintaining a sexually desirable figure.

What could be more cooperative than a wet nurse? The Times Literary Supplement
There have been wet nurses and nannies for generations, for centuries.
Perhaps Eleanor should engage a wet nurse for the journey and the first few weeks? THE GOLDEN LION
In some cases, families sent their infants to live with wet nurses in the country - but sucklings might not survive if the wet nurses favoured their own babies.
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What could be more cooperative than a wet nurse? The Times Literary Supplement
Soranos believed that the wet nurse transmits her own qualities to the child, so an even-tempered woman free from superstition should be found; she should also be Greek-speaking, so that the nursling becomes accustomed to hearing Greek.
A century later, some French subjects believed that a general social reform would result if mothers nursed their own babies, rather than sending them out to wet nurses.