So basically it’s a baby drinking breast milk from a woman’s breast that is other than her own mother’s.

Sounds kind of weird, huh? But there might be good reasons for it. Guess where this story sprouts from? You guessed, it – Los Angeles. Apparently the demand for wetnurses has gone up from woman who are either too busy or unable to breast feed their own child with their own breast milk.

The cost could be daunting, which is why it’s probably only affordable to the wealthier sector, at about a grand a week!

Mostly the reasons for hiring a wetnurse are that either the new mom is too busy to breast feed her child and wants the benefit of breast milk, which is well documented by scientific literature to help an infant mature correctly and aid in the development of mental facilities and other important developmental progresses.

Also, if a mother is on certain medications, she is unable to breast feed, and sometimes a new mom simply does not produce enough breast milk for whatever reason and so cannot give her child the benefit of breast feeding.