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Breastfeeding another baby

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  • 13-02-2009 9:15pm
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    S12
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    Hi just wondering if anyone saw Salma Hayek in the news? She apparently breastfed a starving African baby because his mother had no milk. I'm just wondering what othe people think? It seems quite selfless and natural, but I reckon a lot of people will find it bizarre. And I can't find an article where it says the mother of the child was happy etc I know wet nurses used to be common, but just wondering how other women here would feel about it.


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    Quality
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    i think that breastfeeding is very intimate bond between mother and baby. As a current breastfeeding mother I would not like or want to feed another womans child.

    However, put me in the situation where a child is starving to death and my milk could save the childs life and I think I would soon change my mind.

    Fair play to Salma. I mean, she possibly could have expressed and given the milk by bottle, put perhaps the skin to skin contact is benefiting the baby also..


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    SeekUp
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    It anyone hasn't heard about it yet, here's a clip.


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    It anyone hasn't heard about it yet, here's a clip.


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    Quackles
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    I'm all for it. In fact, my sister is due in March, I was thinking of offering her my wee man as a practice unit ;) JOKE!

    Seriously, though, in day to day life, no way, but if a child is starving, fair play to her. Wonder what the child will do for its next feed, though. There are more lasting ways to help the baby.


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    TheQueen
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    I thought it was great!!! I honestly think any breastfeeding mother would do the same though if faced with a starving baby in such circumstances.


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    TheQueen wrote: »
    I thought it was great!!! I honestly think any breastfeeding mother would do the same though if faced with a starving baby in such circumstances.

    +1, fair deuce to her for being an activist. I also admire her for highlighting some of the other issues involved , see below....

    She did this, she told the camera crew, in part out of compassion for a suffering child, but also to help lift the stigma against breast-feeding in Africa, where men often think women can't have sex if they're still nursing. "So the husbands, of course, of these women are really encouraging them to stop [breast-feeding]," Hayek said. Source link


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