Breastfeeding an adopted child
The Chicago Tribune reports that by tricking the body with medication, herbs, or pumping, adoptive mothers can breastfeed a child without giving birth. The newspaper included stories of mothers who made it work.
This Web site is dedicated to supporting the practice. Here's an older story about adoptive breastfeeding from the Web site of Mothering magazine.
Have any of you readers who've adopted tried to breastfeed? Were you successful? I'm interested in the pros and cons.
Posted by Kate Shatzkin at 3:46 PM | Permalink
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Categories: Adoption, Babies and Toddlers, Expecting
Categories: Adoption, Babies and Toddlers, Expecting
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My sister-in-law is a nurse who assisted a lesbian couple where both Mom's were nursing. The one who had delivered of course lactated naturally and her partner had supplemented somehow. My sister-in-law was amazed to see it was working so well. The baby was not confused and it helped with keeping the supply going since both women were feeding/pumping. I wish I'd had that help myself as I literally just had enough to feed each time! There was no overabundance to pump some and save for later.
Posted by: Christine | March 18, 2008 9:21 AM
I have a friend who used a surrogate to have her child, as she had a hysterectomy at age 21. She induced lactation so she was able to breastfeed. From what I understand, the process can be painful and frustrating, but my friend was very glad she had that chance to do it for her child.
Posted by: Kayris | March 18, 2008 2:32 PM