The Juggling Act podcast: Is it okay to breastfeed someone else’s baby?

But another question has arisen about whether a mum should be allowed to breastfeed a baby that’s not their own.

In The Juggling Act podcast, Kidspot writer and mum-of-two Melissa Wilson, with her guest host, Gogglebox star Sarah Marie Fahd, got the debate started.

Wilson found a post in a mum’s group where a woman talks about how she and her sister are both breastfeeding children aged under one — and they step in and breastfeed each other’s babies if needed.

And while their husbands are okay with it, their dad was absolutely horrified.

“Milk is milk, we’re both healthy. I don’t see why milk from a cow is more normal than milk from a human,” the woman said.

But it brought up the question about whether others would consider this appropriate.

Fahd, a mother of two young boys, said she doesn’t find anything wrong with it although she would draw the line at a stranger physically breastfeeding her children.

“If it’s your sister, you’re both healthy and everything’s fine, I don’t think there is anything wrong with it at all,” Fahd says.

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