Word: wetnessing
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Though it rolled into the Ivy League Championships with seemingly unstoppable momentum, the Harvard women’s golf team found itself dragging to a disappointing finish, finally slowed down by this year’s cold, wet spring. The narrow, tree-lined fairways and fast, sloping greens at the Trenton Country Club in Trenton, N.J., confounded the Crimson, which finished fourth of seven teams in the three-round tournament, shooting a 110 over-par 974 (326-329-319), which put it 41 strokes behind first-place Columbia and 21 strokes behind third-place Yale. “We?...
...There, in the hallway, was a line of sopping sneaker prints, wet with blood, trailing away from room 4040 next door...
Which is one reason most American moms don't want to share the experience with anyone else. Yet wet-nursing (hiring a woman to breast-feed your baby), which most of the Western world abandoned in the 19th century, is making a minor comeback among young moms. So is cross-nursing, in which mothers breast-feed one another's babies. Both reflect several cultural trends: more U.S. babies--upwards of 70%--are breast-fed than at any time in at least 50 years, more women work outside the home, and more young women undergo breast surgery. Advocates argue that milk...
Even if you accept that cross-nursing is for the collective good, wet nurses magnify the discomfort that many people already feel about the wealthy employing less advantaged women to do domestic duties. That's why the few women who hire wet nurses--mostly because they have adopted, have had breast implants or reductions or have high-powered careers--keep it a secret, for fear of being judged bad mothers. Still, Robert Feinstock, who owns CertifiedHouseholdStaffing.com a Los Angeles--based agency that supplies wet nurses nationwide, says demand has steadily risen in the past four years, even though the standard...
Brenda (whose last name is withheld to protect her clients' privacy), 42, has wet-nursed 10 babies in the past seven years partly to help send her own two kids to college. She has mulled over the social implications of her work--because she's black and eight of the families she has worked for are white. "A friend asked me, Don't you feel like you're the mammy?" she recalls. But she finds her job fulfilling, and sometimes amusing. "If you're someplace with the family and the baby starts to pull at your blouse...