The debate on cross-feeding and wet nursing is raging, as TV presenters Kate Garaway and Ulrika Johnson air their views on whether parents should allow friends and family breastfeed their babies for them.
Would you be comfortable with your child being weaned on another person’s milk? Is breast always best or do you think it’s ok to feed your baby cow’s milk? Share your views.
Obviously I don't know how I would feel until the situation arose but it is definately NOT perverse as Lynda says.
Formula milk is a substitute just as another persons breastmilk is a substitute and I know a lot of mums who find the idea of using formula as offensive as some people find the idea of crosfeeding.
Nature intended for babies to be breastfed and it is a lovely bond that is made but any womans milk is more natural than man-made powder.
The emotional reasons people have given on here make no sense...you would a child milk from a cow...any cow, and there are millions of them...but not from another human being.. which the digestive system of a new born is designed for??
The real question is one of diesease...how to accertain that a person will not pass anything on to your baby. with our second child my wife was on drugs that prevented her from brestfeading as there was the potentiol for harm to out new born.
Whilst I have no problem giving my child another ladies breast milk from a bottle I would not feel comfortable having them breastfed. My reason for this is that breast feeding is such an intimate moment between my baby and I and I wouldn't want another woman to share these moments in my place Not would I want to share this level of intimacy with another woman's baby.
I understand why some woman would let another breastfeed there child, but I would not. My breast for my child and for my child only.
When my first child was 6 months old, a friend went out and left her 5 week old baby with me and a bottle of expressed milk. The baby would not take the expressed milk and screamed and screamed. In the end I breast fed my friend's baby and both she and my own child slept soundly. It's not something I'd ever even thought of until it became a necessity but in the event it wasn't `yucky' at all and I'd do it again.
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