How Lincoln Was Dissed

[Liz Rosenthal]

(08-30-2013 12:18 PM)brtmchl Wrote:  The idea of breast feeding other people 's children and parents allowing it, makes the whole notion of men sharing a bed during that time period ( or any ) seem as normal as tying ones shoes.

Thank you for the remarkably strange, and semi disturbing bit of history.

Mike: What did I say that was disturbing? What's so terrible about a woman breast-feeding someone else's child, where necessary? It's not like MTL marched into someone else's house and said, "Hey, I'm in the mood for breast-feeding a bunch of children!" Sometimes, a woman might fall ill and not be able to breast-feed her baby. So MTL would step in. How else was the baby going to be fed? They didn't have "formula" in those days.

By the way, did you know that slave women routinely breast-fed their master's babies? This was probably regardless of the health of the natural mother, the master's wife. It was just one more task that slaves had to do in the good 'ol days.