Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women employed as wet nurses were tasked with breastfeeding babies in lieu of the child's mother. (Photo: Getty) Turns out, it is.

Breastfeeding someone else's baby has been unthinkable for mothers for over a century. Incredibly, despite the health risks, it's making a comeback in modern Britain When Sarah Hastings walked into ...

The controversial history of wet nursing in the U.S. In the U.S. there have been two main avenues of wet nursing: One, the profession of wet nursing, has a long history of abuse and is bound by ...