When now two-month-old Charles Moses Martin Goodrich’s mother died just hours after giving birth, an entire group of Michigan mothers mobilized to breastfeed the infant. “What amazes me is they are so committed,” says family friend Nicoletta Fraire, who helped organize and schedule the ongoing effort. “They would do it for anyone because they believe in this. They didn’t take it lightly and they don’t miss a day.”
Despite this demonstration of community solidarity, a nationally representative Babytalk survey last year showed that 45% of respondents find nursing another woman’s baby “disgusting” or “weird,” though wet nurses used to be fairly common practice.
Modern acceptance for cross-nursing, as it’s become known, continues to inch forward among the country’s growing number of breastfeeding mothers. Read more at Super Eco.
