would you consider becoming a wet nurse?

[milkgoddess]

just wondering,
just being nosey really....again

i'd definately do it if it was needed. not sure about being paid for it though.

My breastfeeding days are well and truely over...but when I did still bf, I wouldn't have had a problem with it at all...

Hmmm, don't know. Depends how much I was being paid.

Would it be different doing it while your own was still bfing?

I would donate to a milk bank, but I never got myself organised enough to do it and now I've been doing it too long, and I'm also saving up for going back to work.

I DID do it for a friend in a dire emergency. She had to spend all day at the hospital with her partner who had contracted some wierd disease and was on life-support machines, and her baby (Down Syndrome) was breast fed only. He refused the bottle from the babysitters (even breastmilk from bottles refused), so I stayed at her house all day with my own ds - same age as hers. I found it quite 'icky' to begin with, although I have no idea why. But once I relaxed and got on with looking after two feisty 6-month-olds, it was fine. My friend was so grateful. Her baby seemed to know that I wasn't 'mummy', but didn't mind the different shapes and tastes at all. Don't know why it doesn't happen more often, really.....

Oh, and yes I would consider it. Doesn't really bother me but I wouldn't do it to be paid for it - I would do it to help out friend or family

I would be the same wilkie, to me it's not a paid service...

but there is ju8st too much ephmasis on birth and baby hood and it's gone so quickly and doesn't matter..

what doesn't matter hedonia? Sorry haven't read the whole of the thread, so, you are probably referring to an earlier post....

Wilkie,was your MIL's mother able to carry on when she left hospital?

Moondog, as far as I know yes - they were a large poor family so I can't imagine that she would have stopped BFing

(hmmm, now that is an assumption - why would I expect a large poor family to BF whilst richer family would FF?? Rhetorical Q BTW)

I have nothing against it in theory. In practise I can't think of a situation arising other than close family.