👶 Meet the Experts: Wet-Nursing the Foundling Babies

Name: 👶 Meet the Experts: Wet-Nursing the Foundling Babies
Start: 2026-10-09T14:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-10-09T15:00:00.000Z
Location: Foundling Museum

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Foundling Museum

London WC1N 1AZ

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3pm to 4pm

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Who nursed the babies brought to the Foundling Hospital? Throughout history and across cultures people have had to grapple with the problem of what to do if a birth mother cannot feed her own baby. One solution has been wet nurses: the nursing of an infant by another woman. Discover the lives of the Foundling Hospital wet nurses in this talk. Join us in person or online.

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