Ancient women always looked for a wet nurse when they were pregnant. When they give birth, they are always taken care of by the wet nurse. Most of them didn't breastfeed themselves. Why?
First of all, all the people who can get wet nurses are well-off families and often have a certain position in society. Inviting wet nurses is equivalent to a class symbol, similar to having maids at home, which shows their class to some extent. This is a phenomenon caused by the concept of hierarchy under the feudal system, and it is also the standard for grading.
Secondly, the existence of wet nurses shows that most women at that time were weak, and even after giving birth, they could not have milk to breastfeed. At that time, the society did not have milk powder as a substitute like our modern society, so when the biological mother could not breastfeed her baby, she had to go outside to find a wet nurse to give her baby enough nutrition.
Another reason is that women themselves have no extra energy to take care of their babies who have just arrived on earth. After all, children are prone to crying at night and need to be put to sleep in time. In addition, ancient women stayed in the boudoir for a long time, seldom exercised, and their physical fitness was naturally poor, so they couldn't afford to toss.
In order to make yourself feel at ease, it is also essential to ask the wet nurse to help with the children.
Not only that, most women are afraid that breast-feeding will affect their figure and lead them to fall out of favor in front of their husbands, so they will choose to invite a wet nurse to take care of their children, and they will concentrate on restoring their original figure and beauty.
It can be seen that wet nurses are like symbols of society, and their existence is really indispensable. They are also derivatives under the feudal system, and they are also interesting phenomena we see in the process of exploring history.