Wet Nurses in the 21st Century

WET-NURSES were once widely used in this country and still are in many other countries where the water is sub-par or contaminated. Nowadays in this country I think many people frown upon this practice. They instead would rather that you use a cows based formula product if you are unable to nurse your child on your own. The alternative to the cows milk is soy based. Neither of these are really intended to feed a newborn infant human baby. Just like a calf is intended to nurse cows milk off the mother cow and a puppy off a mother dog, an infant human is intended to drink breast milk. As a matter of fact, cows milk is not even intended for human consumption what so ever.

Cows milk actually has three to four times more protein than human milk and five to seven times as much minerals. It however has much less essential fatty acids, where human milk has six to ten times as much, especially linoleic acid. And skimmed milk has no linoleic acid.

In a study published in Lancet during 1992 (Vol. 339, p. 261-4), a group of British workers randomly placed premature infants into two groups. One group received a proper formula, the other group received human breast milk. Both fluids were given by stomach tube. These children were followed up for over 10 years. In intelligence testing, the human milk children averaged 10 IQ points higher!

Fifty Years an average cow produced somewhere around 2,000 pound of milk per year, that number has now risen to 50,000 pounds. Quite a jump if you ask me. This was all due to Drugs, antibiotics, hormones, forced feeding plans and specialized breeding.

All breastfeeding mammals excretes toxins through their milk including antibiotics, pesticides, chemicals and hormones and all cows' milk contains blood, don't worry though the inspectors are simply asked to keep it under certain limits, although any is kinda disturbing if you ask me. The USDA allows milk to contain from one to one and a half million white blood cells per milliliter. (That's only 1/30 of an ounce). Another word for these white blood cells is "Pus Cells".