Dog milk?

[Terriblyconcerned]

My dsis is pregnant with her first child. We spoke tonight and she told me that she has heard that dog milk is the next best thing to breast feeding. As she has four dogs, she has frozen batches of their milk in case she has a problem breast feeding. Am I bring unreasonable to say that I don't think this is a great idea?

I guess they must be similar, my mum was told to give our (now long dead btw) dog SMA as a puppy. He also drank the leftover (EXPRESSED!) breastmilk when me and my sisters came along

So i guess it works okay the other way too?

I have heard that pig's milk is more similar to human milk than cows milk. However, nobody these days would feed raw cows milk to a baby. The modern formula milks have been modified to make them as like human milk as possible. So YANBU.

I'd guess that the actual closest to human milk would be chimp milk?

My dsis hasn't got a chimp or any pigs. Hopefully she is reading this and will consider getting help from the health visitor if she struggles with feeding.

It is so tricky giving advice. I want to be supportive but at the same time I do think it's important to ler her find her own way as a mother. I don't want to be the interfering sister, standing on the sidelines of her life, yelling dos and don'ts. However, neither do I want her giving dog's milk to the baby. It's a fine line.

Surely she has a goat she could milk and keep it warm taped to plasma screen.

Excellent stuff OP . definitely my pick for post of the day, if not the year.

This is genuinely interesting and just a bit funny (esp referring to it as bitch milk OldLady!).

I'd say we find it weird because we don't see dogs as a source of food, like we do cows or sheep or pigs. But really, giving one animal the milk of another is quite odd anyway when you think of it that way. And why not a dog if a cow?

But I'd be concerned based on the fact that (presumably) your sister isn't knowledgeable about whether dog antibodies or any other components of straight-from-the-teat dog milk is really suitable for a newborn human.

Saying that, it's up to her what she wants to do. She'll probably never get around to defrosting that milk and actually using it.

How is she planning to obtain the milk in a hygienic way?

I apologise, I have been away for a couple of days.

How will she obtain the milk in a hygienic way? She's already done it. She used gloves.

Course she did, mucky hands are nothing compared to dogs mouths are they?

Even if your dsis had pigs, you can't milk them, they only respond to suckling. Anyone read Nation?

My boss used to live in a commune in the 60s and knew a girl who breastfed a litter of puppies when the dam rejected them.
Perhaps OPs sister could consider this if she succeeds in bfing baby but the dogs prove less successful?

Quid pro quo as twere?

Oh that's ok then as long as she has gloves. Magic gloves that remove the dirt off the dogs teat and skin, potentially tape worm eggs and sterilized the milk afterwards.

How much milk did she get? How long did she do it?

Those poor, poor dogs. Why are they not neutered?!?

Lavender milk.

This is entirely unreasonable.
Everyone knows that rat's milk is the closes to human milk.
Though dogs have the advantage of quantity (presumably).

This is the best read I've had in ages. Could the baby snuggle up with all four lactating bitches and demand feed through the night (with a good dosing of lavendar oil of course) while the DSis sleeps undisturbed? If this is succesful, maybe she could rent them out as wet nurses.