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Friends' Breast Milk??? (S03 E01)

posted 10 years ago by lac925
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I'm all for moms breast feeding their kids, but when you stop producing milk, switch to formula. Do NOT use your friends' breast milk to feed YOUR child. That's just wrong.

And her daughter was at least 2 yrs old and perfectly capable of drinking cow's milk. Why is she still drinking breast milk OUT OF A BOTTLE???

And don't even get me started on her gas station changing table. I understand that changing tables are an unnecessary luxury, so why even HAVE one (that's duct taped to the wall, no less!)? I have TWO kids, and I've never had a changing table. I just use the bed or the crib or the floor. It just seemed ridiculous to not want to buy one because of the expense, and then to go get one from a GAS STATION? That couldn't have been sanitary, even if she cleaned them with her homemade, re-useable baby wipes.

Just...no...

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[–] Blue_Jedi 10 years ago

Changing table: with our 3 kids I skipped over it. I bought them each a decent wooden dresser from a yard sale. Still have em today. Each is about chest high-about the height of what a changing table would have been.

Children's clothes and toys: There's a HUGE HUGE market for this stuff. For the first 5-6 years of your kid's life, you can totally get away with using used clothes and toys. I'm not saying one shouldn't buy new toys for their kid, but you can totally get away with it 99% of the time. Except shoes, undergarments and socks. Those I always will be totally new. Same with coloring books and crayons, those are always new. Growing up, brand new never been played with before toys/gadgets were reserved for Christmas and Birthdays. Same with my kids.

Breast milk: If you stop producing milk, switch to formula. In this case the kid seemed old enough (young toddler-at least 18/20 months) to switch to milk and the food we eat. Granted, soften it up a bit and make the portions way smaller but still, she looked old enough to be completely off breast milk.

Baby wipes: 10 minutes on google I learned 8 different ways to make home made baby wipes that appears to be MUCH MUCH higher quality (and more sanitary) that what this lady makes.

Walmart sells online baby wipes/wet wipes for $13.87 (least the one near my house does) and you get about 800 wipes. With taxes (and shipping to your home if you choose to have it shipped) that equals out to like 4 cents a wipe. Don't need to pay shipping or anything because you can go into the store and pick up a box just as big.

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[–] Sanz-6 10 years ago

The breast milk was wrong and digusting

[–] GraceFromSoCal 10 years ago

Perhaps some of you are unaware of this, but using other women's breast milk is not a weird or even uncommon thing. It happens for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes a woman cannot produce her own breast milk, but she wants her baby to have the nutrition and protection breast milk provides. Or the mother died. Or she's on chemotherapy. Or...any number of other possibilities. There are women who volunteer to harvest their own breast milk to donate to other people's babies. It's really not that odd.

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[–] Blue_Jedi 10 years ago

Grace-doing what you suggested-Not weird. Not strange. Not odd one bit. Sounds perfectly legit to me...and almost normal. I find it very kind that many women willingly donate breast milk to others.

What this woman in this episode doing? Weird. Crazy. Strange. Mental. Her kid appeared old enough NOT to need breast milk. Hell, I could be wrong. But the kid seemed old enough to be eating food geared for toddlers (or at least soft easy to chew/swallow toddler size portions of adult food.) She seemed more like a basket case than someone whose child still needed a bottle of breast milk here and there because she stopped producing milk.

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[–] GraceFromSoCal 10 years ago

You're absolutely right, Blue_Jedi. I should have drawn a distinction between the 'normal' breast milk sharing and the nutcase in this episode.

My daughter was eating solid food when she was a good deal younger than the girl in the episode appeared to be. But with a nutcase for a mother...well, who knows?!

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[–] lac925 10 years ago

Her kid appeared old enough NOT to need breast milk.

^^ This is what I was getting at. Her child was at least 2 - I have a 2 yr old and he's been on solids since about a yr-and-a-half. Her mother was feeding her unnecessary breast milk...from a bottle 😟

It was just odd. Especially when she said "Chloe prefers Jessica's (or was it Jennifer's?) breast milk to the other..." :/

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[–] SixRavenX 10 years ago

Those are all valid reasons, yet the woman on the show did not have any reason to be doing what she did. Thats just nasty, especially at that kids age

[–] !!!deleted!!! (2212087) 9 years ago

Aren't many of these instances sponsored by hospitals and the donor's screened to ensure that they do not have any diseases that can be transmitted through the breast milk?

This woman seemed to be using the milk from anyone who would donate it. I suppose the likelihood of contracting anything is small, but still, is it worth risking?

[–] paxtonaddleman 10 years ago

She was clearly on the show to try to get her modelling career going again - prancing around in so many outfits, especially all of the lingerie.

[–] filterfan86-1 8 years ago

Using your friend as a wet nurse to save money is so 13th century.lol That takes the cake for cheapskating.