wet-nursing in English
verb
1
act as a wet nurse to.
They paid them, wet-nursed them, mind them, breed them, fed them and nurtured them, the Opposition Leader said.
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1. Wet-Nursing Contracts
2. Several papyrus wet-nursing contracts have survived from Near Eastern antiquity.
3. Synonyms for Coddling include cosseting, indulging, pampering, spoiling, babying, mollyCoddling, petting, cockering, nursing and wet-nursing
4. Medical advice, like wet-nursing, was only followed by the wealthy, and may explain their inferior infant mortality rates.