Wet nursing

[Mom2M]

There is a group I joined on facebook that posted this article on wet nursing.
http://earthymotherhood.blogspot.com...-wetnurse.html

I'm wondering if anyone knows how that works as far as the different age babies. When you stop nursing one at an older age or start nursing a young infant at the same time as an older one, does the milk change to infant kind even if it is not your child?

[Katie T]

I don't believe it changes. If you yourself have another baby and are nursing a toddler the milk goes back to the colostrum and works its way back up so to speak.

With that said I had once thought I heard that you shouldn't feed a baby whose age varied more that 4 months from your own baby, but I had a friend who's baby was 11 months younger than mine and was having supply issues and her mw asked if I felt comfortable nursing her baby and that it was fine that our children were so far apart in age.

I nursed her little guy once and it was very strange looking down and seeing a different babe at my breast and his latch felt so gentle compaired to my 1yo.

[averlee]

Thanks for the great article!

[TzippityDoulah]

I think it's great and I would wetnurse a baby if they needed it without a doubt. I couldn't have my kdis wetnursed unless the mom was gluten/soy/dairy free b/c of allergies - but aside from that I don't take issue from it so long as I know the mama.

[basje]

A MDC mama nursed my LO

I was in the ICU for a few days after my homebirth, and my LO was at home being cared for by my mother. Thankfully another MDC mother nursed my LO while I was in the hospital before I could nurse her myself. I am hugely grateful, and even though I couldn't nurse her until she was three days old, she's never had a drop of formula!

[listipton]

Thanks for the article- it was wonderful!