Auntie Remus, or, Sip-a-Titty-Doo-Dah
Your Adorable Puppy Is Also a Breast Pump
Nicholas Day
... In the 19th century, there were hospitals in France with goats effectively on staff. Infants fed on their milk were slid under the goats on wooden trays built for that purpose. They were said to do well, and given that many infants not being fed breast milk died from poor sanitation, it was probably safer to go straight to the source, without any germ-infested buckets and pots getting in the way. (At the time, the biggest worry about baby/goat nursing wasn’t that the infant would be injured by the goat; it was that the infant would grow up goatlike.) This wasn’t exactly common but it was by no means rare: as I write in Baby Meets World, even Montaigne, from his home in the French countryside, took note of it.
The milk flow went in the other direction, too: Humans nursed other species ...
Your Adorable Puppy Is Also a Breast Pump
Nicholas Day
... In the 19th century, there were hospitals in France with goats effectively on staff. Infants fed on their milk were slid under the goats on wooden trays built for that purpose. They were said to do well, and given that many infants not being fed breast milk died from poor sanitation, it was probably safer to go straight to the source, without any germ-infested buckets and pots getting in the way. (At the time, the biggest worry about baby/goat nursing wasn’t that the infant would be injured by the goat; it was that the infant would grow up goatlike.) This wasn’t exactly common but it was by no means rare: as I write in Baby Meets World, even Montaigne, from his home in the French countryside, took note of it.
The milk flow went in the other direction, too: Humans nursed other species ...
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