What does wet nurse mean?

A wet nurse is a woman who hires a nanny for her children at home.

Nanny is very common in both urban and rural areas, especially in rural areas, which is an old social custom caused by the hierarchical difference in feudal society. Nannies are also called nannies, nurses, wet nurses, wet nurses, grandmothers, grandmothers, tits and so on. There are all kinds of names, which vary from time to time. But in a word, she is a profession that specializes in breastfeeding and taking care of children.

Job characteristics:

Strict interview: the owner of a domestic service center in Shenzhen once said that every wet nurse needs to go through rounds of interviews with employees to determine. Usually, the family members of the parturient will be interviewed first to understand the basic situation, and the most important thing is the physical condition of the wet nurse.

High salary: among many high-income people, many people want to supplement their natural nutrition on the original basis, but they are not so concerned about the price of nutritional products, which naturally leads to the rising salary of wet nurses.

Risk: Although the wet nurse can be excluded from infectious diseases such as hepatitis and AIDS through physical examination. However, the whole process of breastfeeding is actually a long process. If the wet nurse gets sick or abuses antibiotics during this period, it will pose a threat to human health.

After the melamine incident broke out in 2008, the wet nurse intermediary sprang up suddenly, and the local intermediary in Shenzhen was the first to smell business opportunities. But the monthly cost is 1000 yuan, and Shenzhen is adjacent to Hong Kong, so it is convenient to buy milk powder. Many lactating women who "abandon their husbands and children" to dig for gold can only "wait for work" or become nannies in the end. Even if there is a single spark, it has not formed a prairie fire. According to a survey, the restriction on the purchase of infant milk powder in Hong Kong has led to the warming of the wet nurse market, and the intermediary has also found another way to expand the service scope of wet nurses to adult breastfeeding.