Translations for „wet nurse“ in the English » Slovenian Dictionary

ˈwet nurse N usu hist

wet nurse

dojilja f

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Campaigns were launched against the custom among the higher class to use a wet nurse.

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No wonder they need the state to wet nurse them.

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Women were told how long to breast-feed and when to hand the baby to a wet nurse.

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Milk kinship used the practice of breast feeding by a wet nurse to feed a child either from the same community, or a neighbouring one.

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A woman who is engaged to breastfeed another's baby is known as a wet nurse.

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How women are judged to be in genuine need of a wet nurse criteria and any stigma that comes with that remains to be seen.

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She also accuses him of playing wet nurse to the president, to which he responds by throwing her to the floor and leaving her crying.

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It may also refer to professions that involve these functions: midwife and wet nurse.

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He also wanted to make the son of his wet nurse an official of the fifth rank.

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Yet they were expected to cook their meals and clean their homes, to wash and feed and wet nurse their children.

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