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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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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.