Baby Feeding by Moms Friends
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“I was tandem nursing my two year old son and my newborn when A mother in my church community adopted a very ill newborn. He had multiple surgeries to heal his damaged heart and bowell, and when released from the hospital, was not doing well on formula. A woman in our congregation convinced his mother to let some of us breastfeed him to supplement his formula feeds.

Five mothers helped breastfeed him for a few weeks while he recovered from surgery. He had a big turnaround with his health and lived two more happy years before he died at the age of two from his heart condition. This was a very sweet experience for all of us. Nobody pumped, we just latched him on and he nursed like a pro.

I also tried to nurse my best friends baby once when I was tending him, and he used his two new little baby teeth to bite me so hard I bled.”

Jenny Hatch
Babytalk Poll: 45 Percent Say Cross-Nursing is ‘Disgusting’ or ‘Weird’
By ANN PLESHETTE
July 28, 2008 —
Breast-feeding, what many believe to be the most intimate act between a mother and child, is also generally believed to be an act exclusively between a mother and child.
According to experts, however, there is a growing trend of cross-nursing, in which a mother will allow another woman to breast-feed her baby.

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