http://www.freep.com/article/20090726/FEATURES08/907260333/Nursing-moms-come-to-aid-of-baby-boy

Particularly in light of WBW - sometimes the emergency is very home 
grown, and personal.  A mother who died post partum and a baby in need 
of a breast:

"The Goodriches were strongly pro-breastfeeding and, once Susan was 
gone, Robbie Goodrich had to figure out what to feed Moses.

The nurses ordered about $500 worth of milk (at $5 an ounce) from the 
Bronson Mother's Milk Bank in Kalamazoo. It wouldn't arrive for two 
days. In the meantime, Moses would have formula.

Then came a life-changing phone call.

Laura Janowski, a family friend, wanted to do something, anything, to 
help. She was a nursing mother herself, so she threw it out: Would 
Robbie like her to nurse Moses?

"She was very cautious and almost even apologetic in her call, and I 
know why," Goodrich said. "Because nursing someone else's baby in our 
country is not a normal sight. Heck, breastfeeding itself in public 
still gets people offended."

The offer was hardly offensive to Goodrich. In fact, he wondered whether 
other women would do the same. Susan's best friend, Nicoletta Fraire, 
34, took on the challenge of making a team.

Through a breastfeeding support group, the Yooper Nursers, word spread 
quickly. Three days after Moses was born, the women began feeding him on 
a schedule."

Follow up: 

http://www.freep.com/article/20090726/FEATURES08/907260465

"

"Think of the thousands of women who die in childbirth every year," 
Goodrich said. "Why can't they have what we have?"

What's happening in his bustling home is not what he considers 
wet-nursing; and it's not the more causal cross-nursing, either.

"I don't think it's either or," said Goodrich, 43, and also the father 
to 2-year-old Julia Goodrich. "It's not wet-nursing because there's no 
economic relationship, and it's not cross-nursing because it's not 
casual. It's now between friends -- but they were initially strangers. I 
think what's going on is something very different. I can't find the 
parallel. When I've done the research, I can't see this situation 
anywhere else."

*sniff*  Hell... *wail*.

Morgan Gallagher

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