How did people feed their kids in medieval times?

maybe milk a cow and put it in a cup ? lol im just guessing

They had women who did live after childbirth come and feed the baby for them they were called wet nurses. Some had children who died in child birth and some just continued nursing after their babies were weaned. At least that is how I understand it had worked.

Often they had another nursing family member nurse the child. Wet nurses could really only be afforded by the upper gentry and aristocracy. “Medieval parents sometimes found alternatives to breast feeding their children, but there is no evidence that this was a common occurrence. Rather, families resorted to such ingenuity when the mother was dead or too ill to breast feed, and when no wet nurse could be found. Alternate methods of feeding the child included soaking bread in milk for the child to ingest, soaking a rag in milk for the child to suckle, or pouring milk into his mouth from a horn. All were more difficult for a mother than simply putting a child to her breast, and it would appear that—in less affluent homes—if a mother could nurse her child, she did.” (Source)

Also, a LOT of babies died. You could expect about half your children to die before the age of 4. up until, well, the advent of penicillin.

The mothers would actually eat and digest the food first and then regurgitate it into the waiting mouths of . . . oh, wait a minute, that’s birds. My bad, never mind.

When they were old enough to go on solids, I suppose they got to eat the stuff the parents threw at them when they were done with it. It was tough being a kid back then, but try to tell that to today’s kids.

Via the utilisation of a well made catapult. Kids were notoriously ugly back then, parents didn’t want to get too close.

Wet nurses were used up to Victorian times as well. Charles Dickens wrote of this practice as well.

A non-lactating woman can be made to lactate through the action of suckling. Some women, to keep their milk flowing, would use puppies to suck on their breasts to keep their milk coming in, waiting for the next child to be presented because it was a pretty decent paying gig.

http://books.google.no/books?id=aYBcX3a1F0wC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=use+of+puppies+suckling+to+keep+breast+milk+coming&source=bl&ots=EC8Iybna5v&sig=oEwbOKJNhkoNs0kSBp0cqqHO4t4&hl=no&ei=aQ2TTaSVKIWWswbOw5DQBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

am i the only one that had this line, there were no forks in medieval times, therefore, there are no forks at medieval times, pop in to his head?

The baby probably died as well.
Otherwise, wet nurse or the royal cow.

Beer for breakfast.

With a wet nurse.