My wife was reading the recent Time Magazine and read an article to me about the outsourcing of breast milk? The outsourcing of nursing? Well - I paused and thought about the ancient practice of wet nursing. I am all for breast feeding, except for the fact that your wife will likely not let you near her breasts during this time…but the idea of cross nursing? The article describes neighbors in my home town of San Jose, CA who cross nursed with her neighbor. Ok…I can understand the need for nutritional help but to make this a social activity with the neighbor? Well, back the main topic of this as a lucrative job. The article writes that wet nurses or those that are hired for pay to nurse your children, earn about $1,000/week. My wife was amazing to have nursed both of our kids for about a year. She pumped and banked milk for bottle feeding when she had to travel or was just to tired to do it anymore and me bottle feed them. A friend nursed her twins like a machine for months - what a task. I just can’t imagine hiring a nanny, nurser and housekeeper. I guess in our day of outsourcing this concept should not be so odd? What are your thoughts?
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