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Benedict Arnold

Have you ever put someone else's child to your breast?

I wss 40, and my close friend's four monfh old was terribly upset, and nothing she would do would calm him. So I took him and quietly put him to my breast and he started sucking immediately. I wasn't lactating but he continued sucking till he fell asleep. 
It was a most joyful feeling I had. Never had a baby suck me, and I can still "feel" his tiny hand gently pressing and caressing my left breast as he found solace in it. He is the only child I've ever soothed this way: an experience I'm not likely to forget ever.

Posted - August 18, 2017
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  • 6988
    Wow. A real life pacifier!
      August 18, 2017 5:22 PM MDT
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  • Indeed. 
      August 18, 2017 5:40 PM MDT
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  • 19942
    Every boyfriend I had was someone else's child. :)
      August 18, 2017 5:26 PM MDT
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  • Love it, love it, LOVE IT !!! 
      August 18, 2017 5:39 PM MDT
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  • Lol!
    You must have thus provided emotional nourishment to a number of "children"? 
      August 19, 2017 1:14 AM MDT
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  • 1138
    Did you do it in front of your friend/ask her, she was ok with it, or you kind of just did it quickly?
      August 18, 2017 6:54 PM MDT
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  • We were very close friends, more like sisters, and she was a single mother sleeping over at my place. I instinctively felt this was what her son needed. Upon my telling her, she put him to her breast, but he refused to be pacified. So I quietly took him from her, and held him under my nightie. I'd never put a child to my breast before and sorely wanted the experience. And what a wonderful experience it turned out to be! This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at August 19, 2017 1:11 AM MDT
      August 18, 2017 7:16 PM MDT
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  • 7132
    I've been trying to get Hugh Jackman's mom to bring him by, but no luck so far.
      August 18, 2017 6:54 PM MDT
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  • 16240
    Hugh Jackman doesn’t have a mom. He's Australian, so he has a mum.
      August 18, 2017 8:59 PM MDT
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  • 7132
    Duly noted.  ;-)
      August 18, 2017 9:00 PM MDT
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  • 7919
    No. I don't think I'd be comfortable with that, nor do I think any of my friends would be. I donated a ton of milk to babies in need when I was nursing, but it was always packaged to go. 
      August 19, 2017 3:51 PM MDT
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