Wet nurses cash in on China's milk scandal.

[Julian2]

MANY middle-class Chinese families already have a maid, or aiyi.

 

Now they are rushing to hire a wet nurse, or nai ma, too, as anxiety surges about milk-powder poisoning.

 

Agencies throughout the country that routinely hire out domestic servants for house-cleaning, cooking and child minding, are now adding wet nurses as a new category.

 

In the wealthy southern city of Shenzhen, bordering Hong Kong, the Daily Sunshine newspaper said that rich families seeking wet nurses were prepared to pay $3150 a month - more than three times the average income.

 

One domestic services agency in Shenzhen has been receiving 50 calls a day from parents wanting wet nurses.

 

Manager Ai Xiaoxiong said: "We only had one or two such inquiries a year in the past."

 

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