on a 1890s census of uk my g grandmothers occupation is listed as monthly nurse, anybody know what this was?

Answer 1

A monthly nurse was the term for a nurse hired to help a mother after delivery of a child. They looked after the new mother, and usually the infant. They generally directed her diet and the feeding/care of the baby, until the mother was able to be on her feet again. Typically this was about a month- hence the name, monthly nurse. By then mom was up and moving about and able to take up her social duties and the baby could be handed off to the nanny and wet nurse.

Answer 2

All answers asserting that a Mothly Nurses most often tended Childbearing are accurate in my humble opinion... In other words by now you have the Correct Answer...

So a bit of whimsy. True, I promise, but not sometime often found in the books.... Certain women parlayed their pregnancies into a good job and their husbands did a good job keeping them pregnant. Why? Milk. Maybe a lad or lassie during the 1800 into the 1900s fed at the breast of another other than his or her mother. Wet Nurses often Doubled as Monthly Nurses and many parlayed their pregnancy and birth into a year or so stretch of good employment at better then average wage. Thus turning what some wrongy view as a negative, giving up time to raise an infant an instant boost to viable career. One woman can take care of two or more children at a time and thus many a low class Irish Maid made an entry into an English Household and later when her child was growing up, well that bond stays there, that child pr their child broke through class & wage barriers.

Peace.....

And guess what Community Standards won't let one name what infants suckle!!

PS // Confinement Nurse is Spot On // Instantly visions of Margeret Rtherford flashed through my mind
("its a minefield in there")

Answer 3

The Hall Genealogy Website gives:
Monthly Nurse: An attending woman during the first month after childbirth. Also known as 'Confinement Nurse'. May also have the initials S.M.S. (Subsidiary Medical Services. i.e. not a doctor, but trained in some way)

Answer 4

An attending woman during the first month after childbirth. Also known as 'Confinement Nurse'. May also have the initials S.M.S. (Subsidiary Medical Services. i.e. not a doctor, but trained in some way)

Answer 5

A monthly nurse is a nurse who serves for a month or some short time, esp. one which attends women after childbirth.

Answer 6

generally someone who visited towns looking in on the elderly

Answer 7

Well i live and I learn even in my seventies

Answer 8

how old are you? you do know what they are saying don't you? it means that she helped women with the monthly menstrual cycle, not that she worked monthly (which she may have I'm sure).