A Custom of the Arabs
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The Arabs, irrespective of being poor or rich, had the custom of sending their children to other women to be brought up in the nearby villages where the water and air were good, so that the children remained healthy and grew quickly. The children remained there for 2-3 years, sometimes more.
The parents would visit them and sometimes those looking after them would take them to see their parents.
Every now and then, the women of these villages would go to the city to fetch children who had been born during this time.
(Nêk Beebiya)