My SIL and her partner are planning to adopt three more children over the next year or so: a 3 yo from Vietnam, a 1 yo from Guatemala, and a 6 yo from Moldova who has special needs (how amazing are they?)....
I plan to nurse my 10 month old for at least another year or two, so I'll almost certainly have milk when they all get here... I want to know is if it is worth it to give them milk? I don't have a huge supply (DS is ebf and big and I always have enough to feed him, but have a hard time pumping even a few oz a day when I try), but I would certainly try if I knew it could help my new niece and nephews. I know that the 6-yo and 3-yo are at least a little unhealthy right now.
Could even a small amount of breast milk help them or is nursing into childhood more about the nursing than it is about our kids getting the milk?....I confess that I haven't done a lot of research about this, I decided to nurse beyond infancy because it just makes sense to me and it seems ridiculous that what is considered "normal" is that at a year (or earlier) to stop feeding our children the milk God designed especially for them and start feeding them the milk that was designed for a cow! Should I pump what might end up being about a shot glass full each per day? BTW, they live a few hours away, so I would probably have to freeze it and give it to them about twice a month.
I plan to nurse my 10 month old for at least another year or two, so I'll almost certainly have milk when they all get here... I want to know is if it is worth it to give them milk? I don't have a huge supply (DS is ebf and big and I always have enough to feed him, but have a hard time pumping even a few oz a day when I try), but I would certainly try if I knew it could help my new niece and nephews. I know that the 6-yo and 3-yo are at least a little unhealthy right now.
Could even a small amount of breast milk help them or is nursing into childhood more about the nursing than it is about our kids getting the milk?....I confess that I haven't done a lot of research about this, I decided to nurse beyond infancy because it just makes sense to me and it seems ridiculous that what is considered "normal" is that at a year (or earlier) to stop feeding our children the milk God designed especially for them and start feeding them the milk that was designed for a cow! Should I pump what might end up being about a shot glass full each per day? BTW, they live a few hours away, so I would probably have to freeze it and give it to them about twice a month.
