This photo of an aunt breastfeeding her nephew has sparked a discussion about wet nursing [Photo: Facebook/The Milk Meg]
Take a look at the picture above. There’s nothing particularly remarkable about the photo of a woman breastfeeding her baby. But when the snapshot was shared to Facebook it sparked an online debate, because the woman doing the breastfeeding isn’t the tot’s mother, but his aunt and the baby she’s feeding is her nephew.
Meg Nagle, a lactation consultant and blogger, shared the selfie on her Facebook page The Milk Meg earlier this week.
“My gorgeous little nephew,” she captioned the shot.
“While my sister was at work today I tried to give him a bottle of her expressed milk a few times (which he wouldn’t take). I could see he was tired so I popped him on the boob and voila, he was asleep in minutes.”
Reassuring users she had asked her sister’s permission before breastfeeding her nephew, the 35-year-old explained: “Breast was last resort because I basically have no milk left,” she wrote.
Lactation consultant Meg Nagle is still breastfeeding her 4-year-old once a day [Photo: Instagram/themilkmeg]
The mum-of-three boys, who is still breastfeeding her youngest son, 4, once a day, was expecting some reaction to the post, but within hours it had attracted over 300 largely supportive comments, with many mums sharing their own experiences of cross-feeding.
Take a look at the picture above. There’s nothing particularly remarkable about the photo of a woman breastfeeding her baby. But when the snapshot was shared to Facebook it sparked an online debate, because the woman doing the breastfeeding isn’t the tot’s mother, but his aunt and the baby she’s feeding is her nephew.
Meg Nagle, a lactation consultant and blogger, shared the selfie on her Facebook page The Milk Meg earlier this week.
“My gorgeous little nephew,” she captioned the shot.
“While my sister was at work today I tried to give him a bottle of her expressed milk a few times (which he wouldn’t take). I could see he was tired so I popped him on the boob and voila, he was asleep in minutes.”
Reassuring users she had asked her sister’s permission before breastfeeding her nephew, the 35-year-old explained: “Breast was last resort because I basically have no milk left,” she wrote.
Lactation consultant Meg Nagle is still breastfeeding her 4-year-old once a day [Photo: Instagram/themilkmeg]
The mum-of-three boys, who is still breastfeeding her youngest son, 4, once a day, was expecting some reaction to the post, but within hours it had attracted over 300 largely supportive comments, with many mums sharing their own experiences of cross-feeding.
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