Is this OK? (Wet nursing question)

[Daisymoo]

Hoping a b/f expert can tell me whether this is OK. I've got a friend with a 2-day old baby, who is having trouble getting him to latch on as her nipples are quite flat and dimpled, but has b/f successfully 3 times before. She is extremely sore and blistered and phoned me an hour ago saying she couldn't do it anymore, was going to give him a bottle etc. I went round and (at her request) gave him a feed myself. My ds3 is 12 months - is my milk going to be OK for a newborn? I've been trying to give him mostly foremilk in case the hind milk is too fatty/rich for him. Is there anything else I should be doing? We're contacting a b/f counsellor, Im taking round some syringes for her to give him expressed milk. How do you cup feed? Sorry this is a bit jumbled, just in a hurry to get back to her.

Daisy,can I just gush again???
What a wonderful story!

In some cultures,this experience makes your child/ren and her son blood brothers.

So lovely.
I was just going to add, but see she's already seen a LLL person: has anyone had a look for tongue tie?
Latch looking fine but lots of soreness... [painful memories!]

Nobody worries about cows fore and hind milk - or how old their last calf was. We just regard milk as milk.

It's not very scientific I know.

And well done you.

Yes, well done! I used nipple shields for over 2 months with my first, wasn't a problem at all, fed normally until 6 months after that.

Thank you all again for your advice and encouragement. I spoke to my friend this morning and things seem to be going well and she has tried feeding without the nipple shields too, and she is definitely bearably sore now, which is an improvement to last night when she couldn't even stand holding him!

The wet-nursing really doesn't seem like a big deal, and I can't understand why more people don't do it. I just feel really honoured that she trusts me enough to ask me to do it.

Daisymoo - you are fab!

I have flat nipples and it was a nightmare at the beginning - hence dd1 was mixed fed from the beginning. However, I cracked it with dd2 - who is now over 8 months and has not had a drop of formula (preen preen).

I used nipple shields when I had nacked my nipples and used loads of laninsoh. The best thing I did was get some breast shells - and put these in about 15 mins before I was going to feed - these got my nipples in the "right" shape.

Also La Leche were fab helping me re positioning - I found lying down the easiest and let dd2 latch herself on - I was crapping it the first time as I thought it would hurt - but nature knows what it is doing and it was fine.

As she has bf before I'm sure it will all work out.