People just need to get over it. If you are willing and able then good for you.

whose business is it really if both pare ts are happy and both babies are fed and happy

I wouldn’t do it but doesn’t really gross me out.

Wet nurses used to be used all the time in ancient times. Nowadays it is more worrisome because of disease. Personally I would not want to BF another child or have someone do mine.

This was common practice up until the wide circulation of plastic baby bottles and formula. It has been the norm for hundreds of thousands of years. Although it might be something you’re not used to, it doesn’t make it weird. Good on these mums for normalising breast feeding and wet nursing.

Hospitals have been known to ask a lactating Mum if she would mind donating breastmilk for a baby whose Mum is sick and can’t feed her premature baby.
I know one Mum who agreed and did that. She was expressing milk for her own premature baby and was producing more than her own baby needed. The hospital tested samples to make sure it was safe to feed to the other baby who benefited from the antibodies in it.

I wouldn’t think twice if it was someone I knew who needed my help. I don’t see anything really wrong with the idea. It’s true that there are wet nurses available in some areas

I don’t think I could but each to their own.

I couldn’t feed my own child so I guess I can’t relate. It’s not something I would ever have considered.

If i could , I’m too old now, but in a heart beat….when a baby is hingry and you are all there is at that time, i think most mums would….

What a great s to 2 problems. Good on you sweetie. People that complain about this need to take a good look at themselves and get a life!

I don’t see it as an issue, the should be more of it.

This is life people – get on with it. Stop all the backlashing it’s not needed.

Let the child have his lunch in peace! Good on you for posting this even though there are some negative people out there.

At my daughter’s 1st birthday party I was tandem feeding her and my friends 4 month old little girl. It was amazing, the house was packed and no one cared.
I regularly feed another friends son as well, oh AND I’ve donated breastmilk 🙂
Absolutely nothing wrong with any of it 😀
Would people rather a child scream, go hungry and get distressed?!

I don’t believe there is a problem. As said, wet nurses were there to help feed babies when needed and there was no drama. I had a lot of milk when I breastfed and one of the nurses told me at the time it’s a pity that we can use your milk to feed other babies especially as you have a lot of it. I don’t know what people are getting head up about. I say good on them for helping where needed. All the babies know is that they are hungry and need to be fed.

I can’t see what the problem is really, it’s a natural thing that mother’s who can will breast feed their babies, it’s been done for thousands of years and it’s only recently than breast feeding has become an issue. I can’t see the harm of a sister breast feeding her sister’s baby as it wouldn’t take the bottle. Obviously the sister didn’t mind. Why all of a sudden women who breast feed in public are getting the raw end of the stick? Tell me any man who wouldn’t latch on to a woman’s breast without hesitating if it was offered to him or when making love ? but we have a problem with a breast being uncovered in public to feed a baby, come on!
The world has gone mad, it wrong to breast feed in public, gays wants their rights and the right to have babies! Pretty soon there won’t be intercourse to have a baby, people will just go to a medical department and bingo a test tube baby is born.
Stuff a duck, there are more important things more important that a mother breast feeding in public. Think people should reevaluate their priorities as there are more pressing issues than this in the world.
From a DAD…..

Another breastfeeding story and people being outraged – sigh! Breastfeeding is normal and I just do not understand the fuss. We have long way to go!

I also fed my girlfriends baby at the same time as feeding my daughter, they were born on the same day hours apart so if I was babysitting she was happy for me to breast feed her son as we both had the same opinion of not wanting to put our babies on a bottle. I’m all for mums breast feeding their babies no matter where they are and if that’s in a shopping centre then so be it natural an better for bubs so those people who have nothing better to do the complain get a life.

I seriously think we need to think on what we share…. This Mum did nothing wrong, but why the heck is there a need to share this with the world? Far out, where is decorum, privacy, respect. These kids are going to grow up and this stuff will be on the net forever…. They may not like it! Join over sharers anonymous please!

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  • • cherz replied
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  Very valid point. It’s fine to feed but no need for world wide exposure.