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Bizzy 
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Posted: 01 August 2007 at 4:47pm |
Found this artice today...hollywood celebrities, what next?
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Posted: 01 August 2007 at 5:25pm |
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Posted: 01 August 2007 at 10:59pm |
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Oh my god, I would totally be a wet nurse! Sign me up!! Imagine earning that much for doing something you're doing so many times a day already. I never knew my boobs were so valuable!
How crazy that people can afford such excess in their lives.
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 7:48am |
hehehe my great grandmother was a wet nurse for prem babys and babys up for adppotion she had so much milk she could feed 4 babys in one sitting and she did i for years when i was in hospital with james one of the midwifes was trying to talk me in to wet nurseing prem babys 
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 8:13am |
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Well I suppose on the upside at least they are getting breastmilk .....
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 8:35am |
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i find that creepy - i know i shouldn't, just do.
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 12:37pm |
I don't find it creepy... maybe because of being in love with Bryce Courtney's novels and Peekay being fed by a wet nurse in Power of One.
Anywayyy... I've had dreams that I've fed someone elses child. That freaked me out a bit.
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 1:35pm |
I was thinking about this the other day. I have a friend who has been having trouble - or that is, her 3wk son isn't gaining weight from her. 100 years ago I would have been expected to help out I guess. Question is, would I do it today? I'm not sure. It would seem kinda weird.
Being employed as a wet nurse must be tough though. It's good pay, but you'd bond with that child and then what? Be unemployed (child too old) and never see him/her again 
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 1:36pm |
lol Nikki! Its definitely not something I could ever do - I kind of see bfing as more than just their food, also a special time between mum and bub. But wow, imagine getting paid that much a week! 
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 2:12pm |
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To be honest I think we mainly see it as weird becuase the shift in society away from that sort of practice.
the idea of earning that much for it though..wow!
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 2:45pm |
I'd do it for prem babies or orphans,in a situation where I knew I could help and it was 'anonymous' IYGWIM.
I don't think I could do it for someone I knew or as a form of employment, a bit to personal and the whole bond thing would be hard.
In the early days feeding Benjy I wished I had a wet nurse to do it for me, until MIL wondered out loud if she could relactate and take over 
I just about vomited at the idea of her doing it.
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 2:51pm |
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I could do it, feed someone elses baby. We almost went down the "wet nurse" track when teaching J to b/f and he screamed all the time and pushed away from me all the time. Anyhow long story short, we (lactation consultant and I) were going to get SIL up here to do it for a day, blah blah dfidn't end up having to, but I could do it to help out someone if it meant them continuing trying to b/f. The idea dosn't gross me out, like Beck said 100 years ago it was the norm. And I'm 100000% for a breast milk bank.
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 2:59pm |
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Would you have your babies feed by someone else if you could afford it?
I've been a nanny for some rich families and they do things differently to us average folk.
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 7:54pm |
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Would you have your babies feed by someone else if you could afford it?
I've been a nanny for some rich families and they do things differently to us average folk. |
No, only if it was a situation like the one I havwe been in, preemie/orphan etc, not just cos someone "couldn't be bothered"..
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 8:23pm |
That's not a job I would farm out for pay either I would only do it for a friend's baby.
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 8:38pm |
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I don't mind epxressed milk - just the thought of someone else's baby attached to me is really ...quite disturbing - COME ON, someone agree with me so i don;'t feel so much like a freak!
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 8:58pm |
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I thought that two weeks ago Liz but I got to pondering this the other day cause I was busting with milk and Kryssi didn't want it so I had to express and let it down the drain - while a friend of mine is having trouble getting enough for her bub.
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Posted: 02 August 2007 at 9:30pm |
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I couldn't BF someone else's baby. I'm so with you there Liz. And I would def NOT WANT ANYONE feeding mine - even if I could afford for someone else to do it.
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Posted: 03 August 2007 at 9:24am |
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I couldn't either the I always remember the saying 'the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world' and don't see the point of paying others to raise your children.
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Posted: 03 August 2007 at 10:16am |
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It's common in my DH's family for his cousins to BF each others babies. Freaked me out initially, but I've gradually got use to it. Having never BF, it's hard to say whether I'd BF someone elses bubs, but I like to think I would be able to if it was necessary. As for someone else BF my baby, it would depend who it was.
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