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Where did the ancient milkmaid get so much milk for the child to drink?

Anciently, milkmaid refers to those women who were employed to milk children for other families, and in the past, milkmaid in the palace was also known as milkmaid, milkmaid, milkmaid, milkwoman, or grandmother, etc. In the beginning, human beings had to rely on breast milk to survive. In the beginning, human beings must rely on breast milk to survive. The original meaning of the female breast is to breastfeed, but as mammals, women only produce milk after giving birth. For the old court nurse, her own babies cried out in hunger, but her milk had to satisfy the needs of the royal children, which was contrary to motherhood, but life forced her to do so. For royal women, hiring a nurse to feed their children may have been motivated by a number of considerations. But for many poor women of the lower classes, being a nursemaid seemed to be a natural way to earn a living. In ancient China, many women of royal and noble families did not use their own breast milk to nurse their babies after birth, but hired a nurse. Women produced milk only after giving birth, and to be a nursemaid depended on the physiological conditions of the time. The phenomenon of the nursemaid is an issue that deserves to be explored in depth because of its implications for women's occupational livelihoods, social mobility, and recognition of the role of motherhood, as well as the status of women in traditional societies, and their roles in the families in which they are employed.