Well, I'm not at all sure I'd want fathers breastfeeding! In fact, I'd say
that's the last thing I want fathers doing. I want fathers doing everything
else that needs to be done in the household; surely that is at least an
important a contribution to successfully launching the baby, and heaven
knows there's plenty to do!

I don't think it would be any advantage "to the entire family" at all; I
can't see why men & women should be perceived as being *the same* to be
considered *equal partners*. Even if the dad really wanted to "breastfeed"
and the mother absolutely didn't, you would have this power struggle going
on about it, using the baby as the occasion for the struggle and the
"breasts" or the milk or whatever the men could come up with as the weapon.
No good. Don't like it. I vote against it. Maybe it works for the Dyak bats.

Has anyone ever known of a man using an SNS to feed a baby at so-called
breast ("at chest"?), by the way? This came up recently, in a joking way but
it got me wondering, with a woman I was working with whose husband was
really pushing her to breastfeed, which she clearly was not as gung-ho
about. She was telling me about all the pressure he was giving her, and we
were joking that we could rig *him* up with the SNS & let him do it! Any
stories, anyone?

Cathy Bargar, RN, IBCLC, Ithaca NY (who, with both deliveries, had so much
post-op pain from C/S, incisional, and bladder infections that any
postpartum contractions went completely unnoticed, even after giving birth
to twins weighing a total of over 17 lbs.)

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