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Cows for rent, wet nurses for 18,000 yuan a monthPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, September 24, 2008 12:52 PM
In the wake of the melamine milk scandal, the ancient profession of wet nursing is seeing a revival. Global Times website reports that a Wenzhou company is offering wet nurses with the top performers pulling in a salary of 18,000 yuan a month. The same website also reports on a women in Chengdu who has been promoting wet nursing services on the Internet at a rate of 300 yuan a day. Netease has published a report on the phenomenon titled 'Foreign milk powder is not as good as a wet nurse - salaries up to 8,000 yuan'. According to the report, high end wet nurses in Guangdong are asking for 20,000 yuan a month, while in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, the salary has gone up to 8,000. Meanwhile, in the capital, The Beijing News reports:
The phenomenon predates the current milk crisis. In 2006, China.com published an article about the rise of wet nursing, featuring the above photo of A Xia, apparently the first wet nurse in Shenzhen. The 2006 article reports that wet nurse salaries in Beijing were 2,600 yuan a month and 5,000 a month in Guangdong. Finally, Global Times reports that a man in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, has rented a cow to produce milk for his five month old baby. Links and Sources
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Comments on Cows for rent, wet nurses for 18,000 yuan a month
I wonder what constitutes a "high-end wet nurse".
University education? Healthy diet? Good at sports? Or, more boring criteria such as high output?
"I wonder what constitutes a "high-end wet nurse"."
Chocolate milk
rumor has it that if a breeding mother ingests excessive amount of raw chocolate, some of it would go to her mammary gland, mixing with breast milk, but since you are asking "high-end", you could try vanilla.