That is an interesting response. I wonder if she won't come back to you
in a couple of days, having thought about it, and have a different
response. Sometimes we react quickly to something and then, when we
think about it, it all looks very different. At least I'm that way.
Of course that quick reaction does say something about how we or at
least this Mom feels about what pregnancy is and what breastfeeding is.
Naomi

On Mar 19, 2004, at 9:02 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> I suggested that the "gestational
> carrier" might be willing to pump and donate milk for a few days or a
> week or so
> depending on how mom's milk supply is at the time the baby is born.
> She was
> APPALLED that I would even mildly suggest such an awful thing!  I was
> a bit taken
> aback that she could have the woman carry the baby, but not provide
> breastmilk for it.
>
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