To breast feed a friends baby if she was busy?

[narkymum]

just read a piece about it in closer. There is a programe about it on 9th sept c4 10pm.

Is it really illegel to breastfeed if you are HIV positive? Did they really make an actual law legislating against it?

My sil bfed my dd a couple of times in the early days when I was having a lot of trouble with latch (we got her started on sil and then did a quick change) which I think went a long way towards helping me stick with bf. I'd happily do it for someone else if the need arose (and I am pretty far from a bf militant, dd also had plenty of formula when I was having problems).

I'm with provinciallady-- if the mother and the owner of the boobs are happy with it, do it, if not, don't! All of this, "but, but, what if you were in a car accident following an earthquake on the moon and you had to choose between a possibly HIV+ Chinese policewoman with a penchant for spicy food bfing your baby or formula made from rat's milk and pus" speculation is kind of irrelevant.

starlight how does that work? (genuinely curious)

mybabysinthegarden

I would donate milk, and use donated milk if i had a premmie.

If a relative or close friend was really ill or having problems feeding and i was lactating i'd offer to feed their child. If i adopted a baby i'd breastfeed the baby.

I think MrsMattie summed it up pretty well.

When I found out the research about how breastfeeding can protect babies against HIV I mentioned it to my Mum and she told me. I don't know what law it's under but Mum is a Senior Practitioner Child Protection Social Worker so it's something she's come across in her work.

Breastmilk can be stimulated other ways than having a baby, so it is possible to breastfeed an adopted baby (if you have one young enough though) and it's also known for fathers and grandmothers to breastfeed.

zoo123, my dd reacted very badl to formul the one time i tried her on it at 6 months as she's cow's milk intolerant. she refused soya formula. my ds i purposefully didn't introduce to cows milk until 12 months but he also turned out to be intolerant. he also refuses soya.

neither of my children could have been given formula in that situation, with dd i had a stach of frozen ebm but only enough for about 2 days, with ds i had none as i didn't have freezer space.

if a friend or relative were on hand and i were incapacitated..... and by that i mean physically unable to feed, not simply in hospital as baby could room with me in most circumstances, i would be very grateful if they could feed my child for me as even if my babies had drunk soya milk... it's hardly comparable to bm is it? i mean bean milk vs human milk i wouldn't even have to think about that choice!

If someone I knew was ill or in an accident and unable to BF their child, if they wanted me to, I would do it for them.
I'd like to think my friends would do the same for me.

men!? right, this time around dh is going to pull his weight.

I agree with VS. I would in those circumstances.
And for those of you who say 'just give formula', try telling that to my ds who will not take a bottle. He probably would if he had to wait long enough, but why would I want him to go through the hours of crying and being hungry to get him to the point where he would take one, if I had someone willing to bf him for me?

especially as the milk the child would get from another human is healthier and safer for him, not to mention free!

Also by someone I knew, I'd probably do it for an MNer if needed, just wouldn't go round A&E asking random people if their child needed BFing, nor would I do it for money.

lol mybabysinthegarden. There is famous story of a man in Africa, his wife died and his baby daughter wouldn't take a bottle, in desperation he put her to his own breast and she settled. She survived like that till she was able to eat. (Google milkmen)

I wouldnt let anyone else BF mine. Also with the preemie thing, with donated breast milk being better than formula. Isnt breast milk baby age specific? If you were feeding your own preemie your body would make specific milk, donated milk could be hind milk from a mother of a 3 year old?!!

I believe there is an upper age limit on milk bank donation, IIRCC, of the donating mother's baby being no older than 6mo?

mumoftwinz.... only milk for women with a baby under 6 months can be donated.

the body does adapt the milk a little but tbh human milk for a 4 month old is still easier for a premmie gut to digest than processed cows milk and contains beneficial antibodies and immune factors for a human baby of any age.

i was facing gestional diabetes again with this baby due in november. fortunatly, all GTT have come back fine so far. my sisters are on standby to provide breastmilk if baby does need top up feeds though before my milk comes in. wont be breastfeeding her for me, but have asked if they wil lexpress some.

Upsetting StarMac?

did you miss the thread by someone namechanging to slag you off then?.....they were calling themselves VSisapompustwat . I thought it was you to start with after fabios quiche game...but obviously not.

sorry for thread hijack

haha what waste of time when I didn't even see it.

I know who it was.

I would be really really upset

I assume that no one would do this without the mothers express permission

If I had to choose i would rather my DD have to drink someone elses EBM rather than actually b/feed but even then I would be upset.