How Do You Think Our World Would Be Different If Infant Formula Was Never Invented?
How do you think our world would be different if infant formula was never invented?
How common would it be that women hired wet nurses?
How much do you think it would cost to hire a wet nurse?
Would obesity, diabetes, lactose intolerance, breast and ovarian cancers be less common?
I think mothers would be more committed to their babies. They wouldn’t really have a choice. Some people might hire wet nurses but I would guess that something like that would be extremely expensive. My guess is only wealthy people would be able to afford such a service.
A few illnesses might be less common, but I think a lot of cancers and diabetes, etc. are caused by environmental factors. Obesity is one that might be less common.
Conner- where did you hear that circumcised baby boys are less likely to nurse? I’ve had two boys(both circumcised) and never had an issue with either one of them nursing after wards. You are misinformed.
the world would no doubt carry on as it has for who knows how many thousand of years. yes there would definitely a lot more wet nurses on craigslist and in your local classifieds but really, women would take more time off like in the days of my grandparents or hire wet nurses.I would also try to tackle the illness factor in your question. I think illness could potentially be less if multiple wet nurses were used or the mother breastfed the 12-18 month duration.the multiple wet nurse theory the child would be less likely to be lactose intolerant from the different milk being fed but, the mother feeding the duration could possibly increase cancer and obesity if the mother is herself in high risk of such cancers and diseases.
There would be less women in the workplace due to having to be the sole feeder for the child. Which would be wonderful since that is how it is supposed to be, not shoving a bottle in the mouth and having someone else raising your child. Hiring wet nurses didn’t happen among the commoners. If you couldn’t produce milk, a family member or friend would step in to help feed your child alongside their own. So I don’t think wet nurses would be hired all that much more, except by the rich. Lactose intolerance would still be common since the enzymes that break down lactose naturally disappear in people having the weaning age of roughly 7. But I do believe the rest would be decreased.
I think the world would be a greater place if formula was never invented. Mothers would have an amazingly strong bond with their children, and crime rates would be lower (this one is a long shot, but I think it could be possible), everyone would be healthier, and there wouldn’t be that stigma of breastfeeding being “gross”. Some people think it is purely sexual, and so you are “perverted” if you breastfeed. No, babies would not die, and I know a lot of people who didn’t circumcise their sons, and breastfed, some of them up to 2 years or more.
Some babies would die. Especially because circumcision is so comon in the US. Circumcised male babies don’t like to breast feed because after being in severe pain the don’t want to bond with the mother in that way anymore. So that would suck for a lot of babies.
I think a lot of things would be less common if more babies breast feed. Not just the ones you listed. We would have a healthier human population that’’s for sure.
But obisity has more to do with poor eating habbits, not breast feeding.
-Connor
Men would covet women with big breasts, capable of feeding. Wait, that’s the same as it is now. Nothing would change.