when i was pregnant with my first DD the owner of the place i worked at told me her and her best friend used to breastfeed each others babies!! for something to do :S sounded very bazzar to me!!

so would you do it ??????? i couldnt its a little to odd for me!

No way!
Ill be the one to bf my babies!!

No way would i let someone else breastfeed my baby, too weird for me. Thats my job as the mother!

A month or so again I would've said no way, however I had emergency surgery three weeks ago and my sister breastfed DD for me while I wasn't able to, I really appreciated it but wouldn't let someone do it just because they could.

A month or so again I would've said no way, however I had emergency surgery three weeks ago and my sister breastfed DD for me while I wasn't able to, I really appreciated it but wouldn't let someone do it just because they could.

wow how nice of your sister to do that, i guess in certain cases id let it happen but yeah not just for the fun of it.....wonder if a baby can tell the differance?

my mum had friends that would do this between themselves and their kids... i e if one was babysitting the others kids she would feed them a vice versa.

i personally dont like the idea of it and would not allow it

when i was pregnant with my first DD the owner of the place i worked at told me her and her best friend used to breastfeed each others babies!! for something to do :S sounded very bazzar to me!!

so would you do it ??????? i couldnt its a little to odd for me!

No. I have no clue what indulgences they take part in and how that would be included in their breast milk. But the main reason is that while wet nurses were fine for the rich and powerful, it seems almost a taboo somehow to allow my baby to feed off another woman's breast.

Yeah, the idea definatly brings erk feeling to my tummy, the idea of my baby feeding from another breast. (altho i'm thinking cow or goat milk in a bottle is sort of a similar concept)

But i used to think, if i'm lactating and there is a starving baby, i would very happily put the hungry bub to my breast.

I watched this doco once. I think it was in india. And a woman was breastfeeding a fawn, because they are sacred or something. I'm not sure i'd be able to feed another animal. That would be a strange threshhold to cross.

Depends on the situation and the reasons involved.

If it was someone I knew well and trusted and I was ill and unable to bf then if they offered I probably wouldn't say no. If I was just running 5 minutes late, baby had drunk all the ebm available and was still hungry, then probably not.

when i was pregnant with my first DD the owner of the place i worked at told me her and her best friend used to breastfeed each others babies!! for something to do :S sounded very bazzar to me!!

so would you do it ??????? i couldnt its a little to odd for me!

My eyes popped out of my head when I read this. There is just no way. NO WAY!!!!

Yeah, the idea definatly brings erk feeling to my tummy, the idea of my baby feeding from another breast. (altho i'm thinking cow or goat milk in a bottle is sort of a similar concept)

But i used to think, if i'm lactating and there is a starving baby, i would very happily put the hungry bub to my breast.

I watched this doco once. I think it was in india. And a woman was breastfeeding a fawn, because they are sacred or something. I'm not sure i'd be able to feed another animal. That would be a strange threshhold to cross.

omg! are you for real! thats so weird! id not let any animal near my boobs! ewwww lol, i guess i would feed a baby if it was starving and needed it, and had nothing else.

This is a vid of Salma Hayek breastfeeding a sick africa boy, which I think is A-MAZ-ING! What a woman!

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6htxMJ4cfQs[/media]

when i was pregnant with my first DD the owner of the place i worked at told me her and her best friend used to breastfeed each others babies!! for something to do :S sounded very bazzar to me!!

so would you do it ??????? i couldnt its a little to odd for me!

No

No. I have no clue what indulgences they take part in and how that would be included in their breast milk. But the main reason is that while wet nurses were fine for the rich and powerful, it seems almost a taboo somehow to allow my baby to feed off another woman's breast.

Actually, wet nurses were not just for the rich and powerful. it was for anybody that could afford it. they used to send their kids to them for up to 4 years and get them back once weaned. Even though they were being bf, the conditions the babies were in were horrendous and wet nurses were doing it to earn money so crammed in as many as they could. Then some savy people realised that the babies from people that were too poor to afford wet nurses were actually considerably healthier and thus the promotion of breastfeeding your own child was born! (read Parenting for a peaceful world if interested in the history of parenting. - although a horrific read at the start. I could only read 3 pages at a time.....)

Its now taboo because it has been many decades of society deciding that bf your own child is the best thing. There is no such thing as an inbetween when what is socially acceptable is decided by the masses! tongue

The only way it will be socially acceptable again is if you as an individual accept it.

Personally, I would be happy for it if I was comfortable with the person and I trusted them. (including diet/medication etc) It would also be for a reason, not just because they could.

No way, he only going to have my booby milk.

I find that strange that your friends do that just for fun. I would never do that for fun.

No way..my body my baby! laugh

I personally wouldn't want my baby feeding from someone else. I find it such a bonding experience I wouldn't want to share it!

That said i think I could breastfeed another baby if it was necessary. I don't see the 'fun' in feeding someone else child though huh

I wouldn't do it just for the sake of doing it, but as others have said in certain circumstances I would feed another baby or allow my baby to be fed by someone who I knew and trusted.

If the need arose yes I would.

when i was pregnant with my first DD the owner of the place i worked at told me her and her best friend used to breastfeed each others babies!! for something to do :S sounded very bazzar to me!!

so would you do it ??????? i couldnt its a little to odd for me!

If I couldn't breastfeed, i would absolutely allow someone else to breastfeed my child. I would think it is better to have someone else's breastmilk than no breastmilk. It is a bit of a shame that wet nursing is not really around anymore. Obviously I would much rather feed my own child and I like the bond that breastfeeding brings and would not want to share that. But for the benefits of breastmilk I would not allow the taboo of breasts and breastfeeding being "secret" I suppose, to stop my baby getting good milk.

Having experienced breastfeeding and seeing the way breastmilk suits babies, I would feed another child if someone wished this for their own child.

when i was pregnant with my first DD the owner of the place i worked at told me her and her best friend used to breastfeed each others babies!! for something to do :S sounded very bazzar to me!!

so would you do it ??????? i couldnt its a little to odd for me!

No way! If I had 2 i'd express milk 4 others babies but bf is a time 2 bond with yr baby.

im not sure if i would. possibly if i knew the person well like my sister or a good friend.

its quite interesting though. i wonder if there would be any benefit in it like another woman may be immune to diff things than myself and share that with my baby??
i think milk banks are quite common in some countries and i know of a lady who was looking for breast milk for her daughter while she was sick.

I dont have children yet, but yes I think I would if for any reason I couldnt.. I also wish I had been born in times of a wet nurse, cause if i can breastfeed I would love to help others.. (maybe in expressing, in this day and age?)

but i wouldnt do it for fun...

nooo way, for me its almost in the same boat as sleeping with each others husbands.. ugh

There was a thread about this awhile back.
Me personally I couldn't bf someone elses baby, I just feel its a special bond for myself and my child, same with someone bf my child.
BUT if someone needed bm and I was able to then I would def express, and if I knew and trusted a person I would take their expressed milk for my child.

There was a story about beginning or mid this year where a babies mother had passed away - accident or cancer (can't remember, exact details but you get the jist) but the father wanted the baby to be breastfed until at least a year - baby was maybe about 4months, as this is what the mother would of wanted so he put a call out to facebook etc and got an overwhelming response, I think if I remember correctly they had been offered enough breast milk to last the baby well past the first year.

Reading this thread I couldn't help but be reminded of this article I read a few months ago: http://www.mamamia.com.au/parenting/you-breastfed-who/

I would let another mother feed my bub, but it would have to be someone I knew very well and trusted, and it would have to under extreme circumstances where I was going to be away from bub for a long time (i.e being in hospital like a PP said), not just that I had ducked out to the shops like in the article!

Yes, but only if I was unable to, not just for fun yk? I'd prefer another (trusted) womans breastmilk than formula.

no. way out of my comfort zone.

Yes I would if I had to. Its only milk. I drink it from a cow, yuck! Im sure any mother would as an alternative to her baby starving.