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The Second Oldest Profession The Wet Nurse, Revered and Reviled Brittany DeSantis allowing for a far richerBy: Barbara Zucker Published by Abbeville Press, Incorporated, 2026 02 03 The wet nurse a woman hired to breastfeed a child not her own is indeed attested far back in history; in fact, archaeologists have discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen's wet nurse. In modern Europe and the United States, wet nursing persisted into the early twentieth century, when bottles and formula rendered it obsolete. At one end of the social scale, wealthy families hired wet