Wet nurses

woman employed to breastfeed and care for another's child

foster-mother and wetnurse of Muhammad

wet-nurse of Odysseus

Mughal king Akbar's wet nurse.

ancient Egyptian lady, nurse of Hatshepsut

wetnurse of Tutankhamen

Japanese samurai

Chinese politician

human biblical figure (Genesis 35)

nanny of the Tianqi Emperor

nanny and nurse of Titia Bergsma in Deshima, Japan, one of the first western women to enter Japan (1794-1842)

wet nurse of Puyi, the last emperor of China

thumb|The two coffins of Tjesrapert in Room VIII of the National Archaeological Museum of Florence