breast feeding someone elses baby?**on now**

[tinytoes]

im so jealous of how much these women produce... and that they satisfy their children i wish i could!

plenty of time yet. Took Ted 6 weeks to learn how to suckle properly.

 

[Neecee]

My hubby and I watched this with great interest last night, as he is always banging on about being able to try my breast milk when it comes and I was always like "Nooooooooooo!"

I don't think I'd feel comfortable feeding someone else's child and I don't think I'd want someone else to feed mine either. I see breast feeding as a way of bonding as well as feeding, so I guess I feel that only I should be allowed to bond with my child in that way.

I did think that pumping for premmie babies was a good idea though. As breast milk is the best form of nutrition a baby can get, giving it to premmies who are too small or weak to suck would be the best way of building up their bodies.

As for the Columbian woman who said that she felt a "sexual connection to the child when breastfeeding"...well, I'm sorry, but if I found that out and she was looking after my child, I'd have social services right round there!

 

[KarenLV]

I didnt see the show as I dont live in UK but my opinion on it is that I would not let someone else breastfeed Skyler. I'm too possesive over him for that to happen and I feel breastfeeding is a very emotional bonding occurence.The first time I breastfed I told my mom that I feel like a woman for the first time in my life,always felt like a girl pretending to be grownup...

 

[Lyns]

I donated quite a lot of milk in my early months, and the milk bank was always telling me how they struggle to get hold of enough milk to meet demand.

I can understand very much wanting to keep an exclusive emotional bond with your baby....as long as I could feed my child myself I would (did and still am!) but I actually feel that if I couldn't provide myself, for whatever reason, giving milk from another woman is still preferable to me than giving from another species.

 

[Whisper]

I think depending on the circumstances i probably would be able to b/f someone else's baby (like those starving babies in Africa that couldn't accept formula), but i certaintly wouldn't like someone to b/f my bub. She is mine and i wouldn't want her to bond with another woman.

 

[keldac]

My daughter was prem and I expressed gallons of milk and froze it in scbu. Shauna died when she was 6 weeks and 2 days old The hospital asked me very tactfully if would donate my 70 bottles (yes 70!) to other prem babies.
I agreed without hesitation - I did also have to agree to HIV and Hepatitis test.
After seeing so many extremely poorly babies and distraught mums who couldn't express (usually babies born so early they never produced enough milk) then I would not even hesitate. I never had to phsically feed them - but I would of to make them better.
I could not do it in a social environment though - still think thats weird!