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    A wet nurse is a woman who breastfeeds and cares for another's child. Wet nurses are employed if the mother dies, or if she is unable or chooses not to...
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    household slaves. During infancy, babies were often nursed and cared for by wet nurses, or nutrix. Nurses were used by families of every social level and...
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    Lady Kasuga (category Wet nurses)
    Saitō Toshimitsu (who was a retainer of Akechi Mitsuhide). She was the wet nurse of the third Tokugawa shōgun Iemitsu. Lady Kasuga was one of the best...
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    Animals were used as substitute wet nurses for infants, particularly after the rise of syphilis increased the health risks of wet nursing. Goats and donkeys...
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    The Nurse is a character in William Shakespeare's classic drama Romeo and Juliet. She is the personal servant, guardian, and former wet nurse of Juliet...
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    typically called a wet nurse. Breastfeeding is the natural means by which a baby receives nourishment. In most societies, women usually nurse their own babies...
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    Wang Lianshou (category Wet nurses)
    1887 — 3 February 1946) was a Chinese court lady. She was the imperial wet nurse of Puyi, the last Emperor of China and final ruler of the Qing dynasty...
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  • Deborah (Hebrew: דְּבוֹרָה Deborah) appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wet nurse of Rebecca (Genesis 35:8). She is first mentioned by name in the Torah...
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    Nursing (redirect from Nurse)
    Registered nurse Transcultural nursing Wet nurse Association, American Nurses (30 May 2021). Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. American Nurses Association...
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  • Milk Money (乳母, Uba, lit. "Wet Nurse") is a hentai series featuring a woman named Kyoko who, to relieve herself of the pain of her unsuckled milk after...
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    and that she first sought to nurse Moses herself but he would not take her milk and so, she called for a Hebrew wet nurse, who so happened to be Moses'...
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    Maia was the wet nurse of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun in the 14th century BC. Her rock-cut tomb was discovered in the Saqqara necropolis...
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    of affinity to the wet nurse as in consanguinity, so when the child grows up marriage is prohibited to those related to the wet nurse by the same degree...
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    Maham Anga (category Wet nurses)
    Maham Anga (died 1562) was the foster mother and chief wet nurse of the Mughal emperor Akbar. She was the political adviser of the teenage emperor and...
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    needed]. The writer Thomas Moffat recorded one physician's use of a wet nurse in a tome first published in 1655. In traditional Islamic law, a child...
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    from breastfeeding. Lack of other sources of breast milk: Lack of wet nurses: Wet nursing is illegal and stigmatized in some countries, and may not be...
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    There is a commercial market for human breast milk, both in the form of a wet nurse service and as a milk product. As a product, breast milk is exchanged...
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  • Breastfeeding in Islam (category Wet nursing)
    hadith explain that the wet-nurse's husband is also included as a milk kin,: 477  eg. a woman may not marry her wet-nurse's husband. According to scholars...
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    Sura Al-Qasas, verse 9 According to Islamic belief, Asiya searched for a wet nurse for the baby Moses, but he rejected every woman that attempted to breastfeed...
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    ordered wet nurses for Musa, Musa refuses to be breastfed. Islamic tradition states that this is because God forbids Musa from being fed by any wet nurse in...
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    Eurycleia of Ithaca (category Wet nurses)
    is the daughter of Ops and granddaughter of Peisenor, as well as the wet-nurse of Odysseus. As a girl, Eurycleia was bought by Laertes, Odysseus' father...
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  • musician Surname Dai Anga, wet-nurse of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan Maham Anga (died 1562), foster mother and wet-nurse of the Mughal emperor Akbar...
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  • Dai Chunrong as the Empress Zhao Lijuan as Consort Ling Li Mingqi as Wet-Nurse Rong Lu Shiyu as Liu Qing Chen Ying as Liu Hong Wen Haibo as Fu Lun Liu...
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  • The word "nurse" originally came from the Latin word "nutrire", meaning to suckle, referring to a wet-nurse; only in the late 16th century did it attain...
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    behavior known as rooting with which they seek out the nipple. Sometimes a wet nurse is hired to feed the infant, although this is rare, especially in developed...
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    disputes that. The original report had stated that the baby's mother was a wet nurse at the hospital, who may have felt coerced and unable to turn down a request...
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  • yo ("My wet-nurse and I") Cristina, although not in the painting, is its subject. The painting depicts Frida being breastfed by a wet-nurse as opposed...
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  • palace eunuchs and maids to wait on him, his only real friend is his wet nurse, Ar Mo. As he grows up, his upbringing is confined entirely to the imperial...
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    The concept and use of the wet nurse was very prevalent in 19th century Brazil. Due to their importance, many wet nurses were integrated into members...
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    Hidetada with Oeyo, and the grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Lady Kasuga was his wet nurse, who acted as his political adviser and was at the forefront of shogunate...
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