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Member Since: September 2005 Posts: 609 Send Message	sam in the south	Report	18 Jun 2007 23:28
	hi all can anyone tell me what one off these are and why a couple chose to take care off them are they paid for doing so or is it out off good will..... kind regaurds sam!
Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 28 261 Send Message	KathleenBell	Report	18 Jun 2007 23:40
	A nurse child is what we would call a foster child today.....and yes, people were paid to take them in. Kath. x
Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 28 261 Send Message	KathleenBell	Report	18 Jun 2007 23:45
	You are thinking of 'wet nurses' who fed babies that the natural mother couldn't feed for some reason. A nurse child is definitely a 'foster child'. Kath. x
Member Since: December 2006 Posts: 4 275 Send Message	Madmeg	Report	18 Jun 2007 23:48
	I've got a nurse child too, I thought it might be someone the mother was feeding, but her last child was born 8 years earlier. so it is just a foster child is it? Regards Margarert
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 6 440 Send Message	An Olde Crone	Report	19 Jun 2007 00:15
	And wet nurses didnt usually 'live in' and certainly wouldn't be allowed to take the baby to their home, unless it was a casual arrangement between neighbours, in which case they wouldn't describe themselves as a Wet Nurse! OC