Normal or a bit daunting? Mother also nursed the children of many other women

Nurse pleads for mutual support among women
When mothers breast feed their babies, it is usually considered natural and natural. But what if the child on the chest is not your own? What sounds rather strange to many people is normal everyday life for Lee Moffitt from Orlando. Because the nurse has nursed next to her own two daughters ten other children from other parents.

Joint breastfeeding with the sister
Lee Moffitt of Orlando, Florida, is currently making headlines with a rather unusual service: breastfeeding foreign babies. The 26-year-old nurse has so far supplied twelve children with her breast milk, according to the British daily The Daily Mail, although only two of them are their own. According to the young woman, the initial agreement with her sister Amy Sylvia was that the two of them wanted to support each other while breastfeeding their babies for practical reasons.

A young woman from Orlando offers to other mothers to breastfeed their children - and receives some bad criticism. (Image: juan_aunion / fotolia.com)

As a child until the fifth birthday drunk on the chest
Subsequently, Moffitt also offered other friendly mothers to breastfeed their children. Many were happy to accept the offer and so today the woman has fed her niece and two daughters and ten more children with her breast milk. By "working" as a baby, she had wanted to help other women to look after their children in the most natural way possible, for even had problems with breastfeeding.

In principle, having older children drink at the breast is no problem for Lee. Her eight-year-old daughter Rose was able to decide for herself until when she wanted to be breastfed. "Rose started weaning herself at the age of four, but it was a slow process until she stopped altogether," Moffitt told the newspaper. Ultimately, the daughter had drunk on her breast until she was six years old and Moffitt herself had been breastfed by her mother until her fifth birthday.

Moms receives hate comments on Facebook
After Lees story became known, she has received many angry comments on Facebook, where she was called by strangers as "gross, strange, disgusting and sick". "The problem is that some people regard breastfeeding as sexual," said the 26-year-old. Overall, however, she has received more positive than negative feedback.

Lee also receives support from her husband Joseph, who was convinced by the idea of ​​nursing other children. "Being a baby creates an amazing bond with the children and promotes the original bond you have with other women who allow you to share motherhood," said the young woman. (No)