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Originally posted by Cream
Nursing another child is not that unusual. There were wet nurses until a few years ago. My mother's best friend from nursing school gave birth to a very sick baby who needed emergency surgery when he was born. He needed to be fed after surgery, but his mother couldn't so my mother offered to nurse him. She was still nursing my sister at the time. The hospital decided to use formula instead so it never happened. My mother's friend to this day remembers my mother's offer as the nicest thing that anyone has ever done for her. I guess it's a generational thing.
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Yeah I was thinking the same thing. My grandmother and great aunts talk about how women would breast feed children other than their own back in the day. Crimsontide gave a good example about the slavery days... basically black women who had recently given birth would be expected to breast feed their white charges.... But the point is times have changed and there is more to worry about than there was back in the day.
I know some babies will not take formula and I don't think I would have a problem with one of my sisters or cousins breast feeding my child.