With the development of the times, there are more and more types of occupations in society, and the profession of prolactinator must have been heard of by everyone. In order for babies to grow up healthy and become a smart child, many people want their children to grow up drinking breast milk. Even if they have little breast milk and can't feed their children, they will do everything they can to get enough milk with the help of a prolactinator.
But in ancient times, especially in the homes of some officials and eunuchs, this kind of prolactin would never happen.
This is because in ancient times there was a group of people who specialized in providing milk feeding for the newborn children of the eunuchs, and this group of people was the nursing mother.
At this time, everyone may have a question, is it true that the wives in the eunuchs' families do not have enough milk to feed their children? Why pay for an outsider to feed it? There are only a few reasons for this.
The first reason is that women in ancient times could not keep up with nutrition after giving birth. Although these ladies have the right and money in their families, after all, it is different from us now, and now we can buy a variety of ingredients everywhere to supplement nutrition, but in ancient times it was not so convenient, and there was no detailed postpartum nutrition care plan for pregnant women like we have now, so they could easily lack milk, resulting in insufficient milk to feed their children.
The second reason: noble status, can not bear the suffering. The wives of those eunuchs were basically women of a certain status, and they were pampered from a young age. Therefore, such hard work as taking care of children, they can never do it, and newborn children are very different from our routines, they generally sleep during the day, cry at night, and need people to breastfeed.
How can those ladies bear this pain, moreover, they are still anxious to restore their figure after childbirth, pay attention to maintenance, and compete with other women for the favor of their husbands, and there is no extra energy to share with the children.
The third reason: the heat of the nursing profession. At that time, the people who worked as nursing mothers for the children of officials and eunuchs generally had very difficult family conditions. And the nursing mother's professional treatment is high, they can subsidize the family to a large extent, and most importantly, they can also reduce the tax requirements, such a good treatment, of course, there will be many people who want to do it.
But being a nursing lady is not so easy, but the requirements are still very high. According to the records of some historical materials, the nursing mother not only needs to grow well, but also has to have a certain talent, and the character must also pass, and the milk fed to the child must also undergo a certain test.
They need to squeeze out a little of their milk, leave it for a period of time, see if it has a peculiar smell, whether it will leave slag, if these are passed, in order to become a qualified nursing mother.
Finally, to prevent foreign interference in state power. In order to consolidate the rule, and in order to allow the child to be independent as soon as possible, the people at that time would deliberately alienate the relationship between the child and the mother, and give them to the nursing mother to feed them when they were very young, so as to reduce the contact between the child and the mother as much as possible.
The ultimate result of this approach is that the relationship between the child and the nursing mother is closer than that between the mother and the biological mother, which prevents the mother's family from interfering in the political power to a certain extent.
In addition, there are many examples of ancient nursing mothers, and today we will pick two to talk about.
One example is that the Kangxi Emperor's mother-in-law was Sun Shi, Cao Xueqin's grandmother, and the Kangxi Emperor had a deep affection for her. It is said that after the Kangxi Emperor contracted smallpox, only the Sun clan was not afraid of being infected, and took care of him every day until the Kangxi Emperor recovered. The Kangxi Emperor was also particularly kind to Sun Shi, not only promoting Sun Shi's husband, but also attaching great importance to his son. Moreover, the Kangxi Emperor lived in Cao Mansion every time he made his southern tour, that is, the home of her nursing mother, which shows the importance he attached to the nursing mother.
But not every nursing lady can bring a positive impact, and the nursing mother of Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty is a negative teaching material. She pampered herself with Emperor Wu of Han, and was very stubborn in her daily life, and even her family bullied the people everywhere, becoming a famous bully at that time.
In general, nursing was still a good profession at that time, and it was not surprising that someone needed it, and someone would do it.