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Hey and welcome to this short stuff.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck in this short stuff so let's get going and Chuck.

I have to say if I'm grateful for one thing to not have one thing, it's an infant right now

because I can't imagine the stress of having an infant right now here in the United States.

Yeah, if you have an infant right now and you are not able to breastfeed for one reason or another,

it probably is stressful because there's an infant baby formula.

Shortage as everyone knows.

We've got to think our old colleagues at Hellstuff works in Alicia Hoyt for this very timely article.

But I was thinking the other day, I was like, well, what did they use to do?

Because baby formula is pretty new.

And mothers have not, it's not like not being able to breastfeed is a new thing.

There have always been conditions that could lead to that or some people just don't want a breastfeed.

Or like in our case, you adopt a kid, you don't have the option of breastfeeding.

So what did they use to do?

And I guess the first thing we should talk about is wet nurses.

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