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As long as the nursing woman does not have any communicable diseases that might be passed along in her breast milk, there is no health concern with nursing a child that is not her own. Cross nursing or wet nursing is a historically used means of child care. Whether this is done to share the burden of child care among two or more mothers in the case of cross nursing, or a lactating woman who nurses other children for hire in the case of wet nursing, this has been common practice for generations with no ill affect.

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