Nasty Phone Call

[virgoqueen7]

I just received THE most disturbing phone call...in the history of disturbing phone calls from a patient of our Dr.

This idiot mother just asked me if it was ok if her friend breast fed her baby, since her milk was drying up. She's like "well she has TONS of milk, and I don't....so that's cool if she feeds the baby instead right?"

I seriously almost

Comments

[faetal]

this type of thinking is becoming more and more popular. (the sharing milk with friends that is). People are grasping for a less processed type of life. Formula is not the drink of choice of lots and lots of family's. I think many of them are made of high fructose corn syrup and oil.. (or recently were before people started freaking out about the whole hfcs thing)

I'm not sure how *I* personally feel on the subject but a lot, lot lot of women are wondering just what that lady was..

I certainly dont care at all what a woman choses to feed her baby, as long as it isnt harming the baby.

[virgoqueen7]

Yeah it wasn't the fact that the baby could be harmed by it, or even that the other mothers milk is bad in any way for the baby. It just seems really extreme to me these days that I'm hearing about this more and more. It's not my body or baby, so I probably shouldn't care, just seems a little weird is all. I definitely wouldn't let another woman breast feed my kid. That whole breast feeding bond is way too important to me, to just let another woman give her the boob. Haha

[sinnamongirl]

Years ago at the group home one of the case managers told me a story about a friend getting really upset with her for breastfeeding the friend's baby. The case manager had been babysitting, I think, the baby ran out of pumped milk, so she whipped out a tit and when she told her friend, the friend went ballistic.

I dunno. I was seriously, seriously grossed out at the time. I think part of it is that breastfeeding seems like such a bonding activity, if nothing else, but... blech. I think it's harder for babies to catch something through breast milk (?) but still, even just the opportunity for something to go through someone else's body and make my hypothetical baby sick would worry the crap out of me.

[virgoqueen7]

Totally! It's not so much the sick thing, as the fact that there is a whole bond which goes along with feeding. And really....soooo many studies have been done on breastfeeding that show a baby gets all the immunities they need in the first 2 months (even the first 2 weeks some say). So the moms who breast feed their kids FOREVER kinda gross me out too. A year maybe....but like a couple years? Ewww. Kids got teeth!!! Hahah.
Sequoia had like 6 teeth by the time she was like 4 months old! That shit hurrrrts!!!

[sinnamongirl]

Yeah, I've heard that the breast milk is good for the immune system and the protein content is good for... stuff... I dunno, I'm not TOO clear on that, but if a kid can talk, it for sure should not be breastfeeding. And the teeth thing sounds scary. I can definitely see at least the first 6 months, but probably not more than a year. I started talking really young, and if I had a kid that started talking really young that would be the day the boob stopped.

[virgoqueen7]

HAHHAA. Yeah when your kid can ASK for the boob...there is something seriously wrong.
When I lived in Humboldt, I was always really grossed out seeing these 3-5 year old kids in the grocery store asking for milk. Women would just cop a squat in the middle of the damn isle and feed their kids! Hahah. Eww.

[jonboi_net]

That button is about one deep breath away from putting someone's eye out.

[virgoqueen7]

That mom is nasty...but I would kill someone for tits like that. ;)

[archmage]

*shrug* Yeah, the idea of a wet nurse is certainly a bit archaic, but if they are close and choose to do so, I don't actually see anything disgusting about it. Sure. there's an intimacy angle, but that's personal. I'd rather my littl'un be drinking breast milk than formula.

[moonchylde]

I do recall reading about a group that would bottle and deliver breast milk for those who wanted it for their kids but couldn't provide it themselves... though that was quite awhile ago and probably in another area of the country.