letting a friend feed your baby

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Has anyone here ever let a friend who is nursing breastfeed their baby? Too embarrassed to ask anyone in RL! Such a nosey question

Expressed milk I think I would have been cool with but actual breastfeeding feels far too intimate.

My closest friend and I occasionally fed each other's babies if they got distressed. This was 35 years ago. It's funny but we both remarked what gentle feeders they were compared to our own child !
Still love my special almost-my baby !

I would. I couldn't watch it happen but I would fine with it happening - just in another room Contradictory, or what?!

I would feed someone else's baby. But I can't think of any way to offer without sounding weird.

I have a friend with a baby the same age (4 months). She doesn't ever get much of a break and I offered to look after her baby while she goes for a massage which is just a few minutes walk away from mine, and it would only be an hour. She is a bit worried as her baby does feed very often sometimes. I am pretty confident with babies though and I said as long as baby is fed before she goes it will be fine! But I would totally feed her baby if she wanted me to. No idea how to offer though!

I nearly fed my SIL's baby when she was having a shower once. But I didn't in the end. I jiggled her instead!

Update: all went fine in the end. Was away from the children for 3 hours and dd did eventually give in and take a bottle of ebm but only from friend's dh.

it does feel a bit silly when you're holding someone else's baby for an extended period of time, they're crying and you don't feed them. When if you had formula you would just make them a bottle.

No no no, just no WAY.

Breastfeeding is a special bond between MY baby and me and I wouldn't want anyone else to have that. The fact that he has 'my' milk is also important to be. It's not just breastmilk, it's milk MY body makes, for MY baby and nourishes him just like my body did during pregnancy.

Sorry but it actually upsets me to even think about it!

I probably sound nuts I know!

Not nuts at all!