LIFE AS AN EGYPTIAN

*high rate of deaths among small babies & small children ,they made charms from garlic,honey & river fish to protect their children.

*they prayed every morning & tied a protective amulet around their childs arm,neck.

*usually the children were breastfed until they were 3 yrs old.

*infants were switched to solid food at age 3, & because their death rate rose up quickly as the results of stomach infections.

*very wealthy men did not breast-feed their babies themselves, they hired wet nurses.

*wet nurses were paid in goods,necklaces,combs,sandals,baskets,and cooking oil.

*wet nurses of the pharoahs child might be the wife of a general or some high offical.

*wet nurses were treated with great honor,sometimes wet nurses were kept as nannys.

*when the royal children grow up they thought of their nanys like their own brothers and sisters.

*immediately after birth a baby was named by its mother in case it died soon afterwards,& most names have referred to a god or goddess/be called after a member of the royal family.

*a wet nurse is when a mother cannot or refuses to breast feed their child,then thats when the egyptians hire a wet nurse to do it for them.