Breast milk shared to help babies via online and offline communities
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 12:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Sharing breast milk is thriving today and it appears high income, highly educated white women are some of the people to most often use the Internet to facilitate the exchange, a new study suggests. Another surprise out of the study: Cross-nursing (directly breastfeeding someone else's baby, often incorrectly referred to as wet-nursing, a professional service) seems to be a modern-day reality as well.