Chirutha, a Hindu Thiyya woman, came to be regarded as the sibling of the late K Moidu Moulavi, a respected Islamic scholar, because he grew up on the milk of her mother Unicheera.
The Family and Social Services Ministry has established a mechanism for wet nursing for unaccompanied babies who lost their families in the Feb. 6 quakes.
i went to a protest and wound up reporting from the protest, bare-breasted with my own nursling. a woman had been thrown out of a art museum for nursing in a corner. so washington, d.c. moms converged on the smithsonian museum and i looked around and i interviewed a lot of the african-american mothers who showed up during the three hours i was there. and the stories were the same. black women who have traditionally provided domestic work, child-rearing of other children, wet-nursing of other children, there was a time after the so-called civil rights movement i say so-called a lot. in which it was decided that formula is just as good. you need not relegate yourself to that position. our mothers did that, our grandmoms did that, we don t need to do that any more.