glass_baby_bottle

Up until a time when Grandma Bugpuddles was raising her children many years ago, there was no question about what to use.    Mothers nursed their babies; or if they had no milk of their own because of some illness or fever, then they purchased from a nursing woman who had more than enough of her own milk and was willing to share with others.  Some women actually earned a meager living wage as a “wet nurse.”  In still later times the purchased mother’s milk was sold in glass bottles.

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