I suspect we will be given NO answers to what are the benefits to the child.
Nothing has been proposed as yet. Not one of these supportive posters addressed it at all.
I would like to think they are now considering it from a child centred point of view, BUT I doubt it.
The poster, Helen8220, actually went on to say the following.
-the arguments based on the idea that the child’s well-being, and the avoidance of any possible risk, however small, should effectively override all other considerations, remind me of the moral pressure that often seems to be put on women to breastfeed - that the benefits to the baby have been scientifically proven and therefore must outweigh almost all reasons the mother might have for not wanting to (eg related to the interference with their independence or ability to work, or the sharing of care);
So, we are faking concern to children's well-being and it is just like the pressure to breastfeed over formula.
-it also reminds me very strongly of the many arguments that have been made against gay people or same sex couple raising children - it’s a social experiment, it’s unnatural, the impact on the child can’t be known, it’s based on (at best) the gay person’s narcissistic desire for validation, or (at worst) some deviant sexual interest in children;
So, anyone expressing concern, pointing out the obvious lack of any evidence to support males breastfeeding their secretions to infants are doing it from hate, from phobia and this poster neglects to acknowledge that these are MALES who are seeking to do this. MALES who don't have the necessary systems to support adequate milk (if it is ever found to be able to be called milk) production so it is not going to be in the child's interest to be breastfed this way.
But, people raising the issues around this are just doing it because these are transitioned males.
-if the child is being bf by the other parent as well (which is the impression I got from the screenshot on Twitter) I’m not sure how relevant the arguments about nutrition are;
And this one was a great one. It doesn't matter because parents may co-breast feed the infant and nutrition doesn't matter.
Missing the point that always breastfeeding an infant needs more breastmilk as breastmilk is quite different to formula feeding.
Missing the point that even substituting one feed a day with a less nutritious feed than from either the carefully mother-child constituted breastmilk or formula will result in an infant NOT GETTING full nutrition.
Missing the point that if the mother's milk has come in, that mother needs to feed regularly to both sustain the flow of the milk AND to cope with engorgement.
So.... that is all ok baby and mum. Baby, you can still cope with lower nutrition because the other parent is happy now. And mum, you just suck up the fact that this may interrupt your milk supply, your comfort, your ability to sleep without discomfort just so your partner can have 'an experience' that doesn't benefit you or the child.
But we are the ones who are ill-informed apparently.