As I await the arrival of my first child I'm learning a lot about breast feeding and the challenges that many women face with it. Either they have a baby that's bad at latching or their supply never comes in adequately or any number of other issues come up that prevent feeding properly. How did society deal with this problem before the invention of other foods for babies? I can't imagine the baby was just left to die. What did a widowed dad do if his wife died in childbirth?
Consider: 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. written by u/mimicofmodes
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Before specially made baby food. How did the people of your era feed their babies? written by u/Superplaner
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Before we had things like Formula, how did infants whose mother died in childbirth get the necessary nutrients that are in breastmilk written by u/amifufu