Before formula for babies was available, how did people ensure a newborn could be fed if the mother died in childbirth? Did royalty make sure to always have a woman with milk on hand? What about everyone without access to hundreds of servants? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

Before formula for babies was available, how did people ensure a newborn could be fed if the mother died in childbirth? Did royalty make sure to always have a woman with milk on hand? What about everyone without access to hundreds of servants?

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mimicofmodes

There's always more that can be said, but I have a previous answer on this:

In older days let's say before infant formula was invented how did lower class/poor families tend to/feed newborns in circumstances where the birth mother died during labor and couldn't afford/ get a wet nurse.