Yes, wet nursing has been around for a good few hundred years, but in this day and age, it isn't as straight forward as it used to be. Readers responded to the article in which a mom caught a daycare worker breastfeeding her baby.
Here are a few of your thoughts:
What do you think of wet nursing?
Growing up on your nanny's breast
A health professional should give the all-clear first
No means no!
Have we all just become too "Westernised" for our own good? Regardless of this mom's baby being lactose intolerant and her telling the worker she is not allowed to breastfeed her baby, is she overreacting? Is she right in saying breastfeeding someone else's child is "nasty"? Share your opinion and experience by emailing chatback@parent24.com and we may publish your story.