Is Anyone Cross-Nursing or “Shared Feeding”?
May 14, 2008 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under breastfeeding
Have you breastfed a nursling other than your own? Your sister’s baby or your friend’s? Cross-nursing, or “shared feeding,” continues to be a hot topic, and I have been contacted by a television producer for a major morning news outlet in the United States. Please email me if you are interested in being put in touch with her to discuss your experience.
Wet-Nursing and Cross-Nursing Are Becoming Popular
January 6, 2007 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under breast milk, donation of breast milk
There’s an interesting article entitled “Not Your Mother’s Milk” by Viv Groskop in yesterday’s Guardian on current trends in wet-nursing (hiring someone else to nurse your baby) or the more informal “cross-nursing” or “shared feeding” among close family members and friends. Groskop touches on the morality and legality of the practice around the world, and she mentions the fact that having a wet-nurse has become a status symbol in some countries and is becoming more popular in Hollywood.
For more on the subject, see what La Leche League has to say about wet-nursing and cross-nursing, and read about the history …read more
