New moms are inundated with information about feeding their babies. There’s breastfeeding, there’s pumping, there’s formula, there’s donor milk.

But there is another method that is not often discussed publicly but still happens quietly: wet nursing.

Before the invention of infant formula and feeding bottles in the 19th century, mothers who couldn’t — or didn’t want to — nurse their babies turned to wet nurses, women who breastfeed children who are not their own.

Would you let another woman breastfeed your child? Would you breastfeed someone else’s child?

TODAY.com talked to three women who shared their personal stories about wet nursing to demonstrate why and how women are wet nursing today. The practice may not be as uncommon as you think.

HER MOTHER BREASTFEED HER BABY

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