I don't think it's as taboo as I used to think it was.  It seems like
every time this comes up in conversation at an LLL meeting or elsewhere,
there is always at least one woman who tells how her mother and aunt
shared nursing or how she had a friend who nursed her own baby and a
friend's or how her grandmother nursed a nephew and a son.

Personally, my own daughter was nursed by another woman, a good friend,
and her first milk, due to circumstances of birth, was the thawed milk
of a good friend, who at that time had a six month old and plenty of
stored milk.  To this day, we call her Janene's milk mama.

Maybe it is because of the circle in which I travel, and I have a
screwed pov on this, but I'm not sure I would call it taboo.  Not talked
about, yeah.  Underground?  definately.  but not taboo.  just my 2cents.

joylyn

Jeanne Schrank wrote:

>Nursing someone else's baby (for instance, when baby-sitting) is pretty much taboo in American culture.  Does anyone know what other cultures take on this is?
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