Most breastfeeding moms at one time or another have heard a baby cry who wasn’t their own and felt their milk let down. This is kind of what I’m talking about today, but not exactly. Nor am I talking about nursing someone else’s child for money or because you’ve struck up a deal with someone [...]
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Breastfeeding: A Vital Emergency Response Are You Ready? OBJECTIVES OF WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK 2009 To draw attention to the vital role that breastfeeding plays in emergencies worldwide. To stress the need for active protection and support of breastfeeding before and during emergencies. To inform mothers, breastfeeding advocates, communities, health professionals, governments, aid agencies, donors, and [...]
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Today, real wet nursing is rare. It runs a steep price tag and it is so taboo in present culture that you would be hard pressed to find a wet nurse willing to talk to the media. Unless of course you’re the woman from the video in yesterday’s post, Wet Nursing & Cross Nursing in [...]
It has been two years since modern day wet nursing hit the media, on The Today Show (see below) and in Time Magazine. Since I was trying to recuperate from just having a baby I wasn’t spending much time on the computer back then, so when I decided to do a series of wet nursing/cross [...]
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<a href =”http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1518512/” >Would you nurse another woman’s baby?</a> <br/> <span style=”font-size:9px;” mce_style=”font-size:9px;”> (<a href =”http://www.polldaddy.com”> polls</a>)</span> When my daughters were babies I made it perfectly clear to all my lactating friends, that if there were ever a natural disaster and they had my babies, and I couldn’t get to them, I would expect these [...]
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