What is your opinion on "cross nursing"?

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hell yeah id much pregfer it to bottle feeding i would if i could one
its good old aptamil til then

There was a thread on here not that long ago. i'll find it

here it is (gets a bit heated towards the end! )

nope, I wouldn't do it
v personal thing

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A close friend of mine had a baby in October and had some problems with b/f early on which meant that she couldn't bear to latch the baby on because it was so sore. She asked me to feed the baby for a while so she could recover and have a bit of a break, and I did. The only strange thing I found was how normal it felt and I would do it again without hesitation if she needed me to. In fact, she's coming to babysit tonight and I know she will feed my baby if he wakes and that's fine with me.

that's such a lovely story.

My grandmother was a wet nurse in the late 1940s. I would feel a little strange if someone else fed my baby - it's such a personal thing I don't think I would want anyone feeling the same closeness with my baby. However I would breastfeed someone else's baby if asked to under exceptional circumstances.

Fine by me as long as the other person was happy with it.

Thats exactly how I would feel belgo ,almost like a jealousy. I wouldnt want it for me personally , its a very intimate and special thing for me and my child.

I had this discussion with a group of friends when dd was tiny. We were all bf'ing as we chatted. We all said we wouldn't mind feeding someone else's baby if necessary. No problem. Then someone phrased it the other way around - how would we feel about someone else feeding our baby? All of clutched our babies closer to us and said "no way!".

I clicked on this thread to find out what "cross nursing" was. Had a vision of a bunch of hairy blokes in womens clothing pretending to breastfeed.

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