What is "wetnurse"

Usage examples of "wetnurse".

His plan was the cheapest and quickest way to install all the jacks, but my wetnurse was pinging about my pulse rate, lung color, and electrolyte levels, so I did my own math.

Victor Mature was beginning to warble, but the wetnurse rushed up and gave me a shot of sleepytime before my jack overheated entirely.

I wanted to rip his beard off, to feel the wiry hair in my hands, but the wetnurse sedated me.

My wetnurse suggested flipping though the New Testament, “purely to keep our mind on something else right now.

The wetnurse was standing on a stepladder as a waist-deep flood of information spilled into our little world.

Marya watched the wetnurse as she smiled and stroked the baby's cheek.

The wetnurse had taken the infant from her breast and had it on her shoulder, patting gently at its back until a small, surprised belch indicated success.

For Saffia, picking up an indiscreet remark from a wetnurse must have been a godsend.

The people he mostly saw were the wetnurse and the two maids who took turns cleaning him or carrying him around.

We'd done everything we could for him, even found a wetnurse and paid her half what we earned for a few months, but sometimes babies just die.