Sign if the Times

I'm not looking to shame anyone, or to start an argument. I'm just pointing out an interesting opportunity the current situation offers.
Back in the old days wealthy women would hire wet nurses to supply breast milk for their children. Now formula has only been around since 1951 and there have been some really serious scandals with the industry, Nestlé sold tons of absolutely worthless baby formula on the African Continent for quite some time after being forced to quit selling said product in the developed world essentially murdering who knows how many infants there.
Human breast milk simply is the best thing to feed human infants. Though it is, for some just too much of a hassle, apparently to deal with.
However, since the 1980s there have been a fair number of women selling breast milk. And at a good price.
Seems to me that right now would be a great time for women who are lactating to make a pretty decent price for their milk.
If I were both female and lactating I'd be pumping and freezing like mad.

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SW-User

I breastfeed my baby and believe that women should breastfeed instead of depending on formula. However, some women simply can't and that can be for many reasons. Some need to exclusively use formula and some need to combine it with breastfeeding. It's worth noting that if women had to chose between their baby starving because they've got no formula or breastfeeding their baby they would obviously choose the latter but after a certain point you can't breastfeed if you've been relying on formula. Women who've exclusively used that for their babies have no supply of breast milk and so they couldn't feed their baby even if they wanted to.

To have a healthy and thriving baby you actually need to produce a lot of milk and so it's not realistic to have some other woman in the background providing milk like you're suggesting...how is that supposed to work out exactly? Wouldn't it be easier if the U.S just resolve their supply issues and fix the problem like they should do? Maybe in the future they can try working on ways to prevent this as well, which would entail not locking down and disrupting supply for months/years.

They have been extremely careless and negligible in my view.

McGeeisme · 61-69, M

@SW-User other women than the mother supplying an infant's breast milk, entirely, has been done for thousands of years. This is why it is good to read lots of history and anthropology and well just lots of everything

SW-User

@McGeeisme lol you seriously need a reality check

McGeeisme · 61-69, M

@SW-User explain to me just why. Then I can tear your argument apart and leave you crying in the closet you inhabit.

helenS · 36-40, F

There's no hassle whatsoever connected with breastfeeding. I breastfed two babies, and it made me feel very close to them. There really was a connection. Even though I have very small breasts, I produced tons of milk.

PS I don't know what you mean, current situation?

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helenS · 36-40, F

@McGeeisme And why please??? I don't get it. 😐
I have feet, I don't a wheelchair.

SageWanderer · 70-79, M

@helenS Besides the fact mothers have little or no time for maternity leave there is a moral stigma about breastfeeding in public.

McGeeisme · 61-69, M

@SageWanderer were you a mother pre-op?

Penny · 46-50, F

do you have any idea how hard it it is to pump breast milk? its a lot of work and you only get a little bit

McGeeisme · 61-69, M

@Penny my son's mother didn't mind it, with the second pump she had. But she is a very biologically centered person, very natural/granola in an oddly pragmatic way and determines her priorities and deals well with them. Plus, I picked up a lot of the slack of domestic life then, which enables her to do mixed activities like watching some program or a movie while breastfeeding and I'd be doing the laundry and cooking dinner with the kid in a front pack, he liked that when he was an ifant, he'd stroke my beard and suck his thumb and fall asleep. Some people that sort of thing isn't a priority. Like I said, I'm not posting this in a confrontational or judgemental way. I'm just saying, this might be a really good opportunity for a mother who is weaning her child, or is a heavy producer and just has extra to sell. My partner produced a lot of milk which is why we could freeze a bunch in advance and then get our person we had to babysit and we'd go out. She could have easily sold some.
Just an idea.

McGeeisme · 61-69, M

I agree. My son was nursed. His mom pumped like mad and we froze lots of milk so we could have date nights, I could do middle of the night feedings etc. But I'm just trying to be non confrontational/understanding with the vast majority of mother's who don't breast feed.

HootyTheNightOwl

Great idea... let's infect babies with HIV now, too...

McGeeisme · 61-69, M

@HootyTheNightOwl women have been legally selling their milk since the 80s. While there doesn't appear to be a massive inspection process, a person takes on extreme liability, and, if selling through the normal channels there is inspection and adherence to regulations. Let's not be...dim here, please. We are supposed to be adults, and in my mind that entails an obligation for staying well informed on a very broad array of topics. If all you have other than being informed is a knee jerk and negative reaction, please keep it to yourself.

HootyTheNightOwl

@McGeeisme Lmao "I can't take any argument that isn't in strict agreement with whatever I say!!!"

Okay, I get it now. I'm sure you're absolutely correct. Facebook groups are among one of the most highly regulated places on the planet - and your baby will be 100% safe to consume whatever milk is on offer there. Yes, this happens and the more vulnerable may not know or understand what they should ask for prior to signing the contract... why do you think that the elderly are the easiest to scam out of their money via tech support scams???

Desperate people will resort to desperate measures - hence why backstreet abortionists pop up in places where abortion is too strictly regulated or outlawed.

But your "knowledge is far more superior to that of anyone else... so whatever you think is 100% correct and no one else should ever think or feel anything other than complete agreement with you.

McGeeisme · 61-69, M

@HootyTheNightOwl I'd.say you're just an angry sort, looking for social media brawls.all the time. Probably about 5'3 or 5'4", acne ravaged face because you simply don't wash it often, living in a basket room at someone else's grandparent's house, chubby bare feet filthy on a greasy bit of carpet that's not been vacuumed once in the 14 years you've been trolling the internet from that room, the aroma around.you a melange of piss, dirty ass, sweat, old pizza,yeast, and an odor of rotting flesh which is you because you haven't bathed in so long you have a skin disorder that is simply rot.
You enjoy wandering around attempting to be a badass in a realm where even 9 year olds can get away with that because there is simply no one there. You expend vast amounts of soda pop fueled energy trying to bully and abuse nothing but a screen. What a dreadful waste of flesh.

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