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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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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.