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Note: Stick around to the end to learn how to properly nurse on a breast. Hint: You are not supposed to just suck on the nipple.
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Our daughter Millie is straight and she breastfed on my wife's friend Cheryl's breast twice.
I should point out that our daughter was nine months old when she breastfed on Cheryl's breast.
My wife and I had been married almost two years and our first child Millie's only sustenance in nine months was from nursing like clockwork every two to four hours.
My wife mentioned to Cheryl that we wanted to go out on a date without Millie in tow, which we had not been able to do for nine months due to our daughter's constant nursing. Well, we tried once to go to a movie, but Millie woke up crying in the middle of the movie and we had to leave early.
Cheryl had five children and her youngest was a daughter who was still nursing at 12 months old. Cheryl said that she could babysit Millie so my wife and I could go out on date sans daughter. Cheryl said she could nurse Millie. Millie might notice that Cheryl wasn't her mom, but she would eat, especially if she was hungry enough. And Cheryl's own daughter would have plenty to eat because Cheryl pumped her breastmilk and always had extra in the refrigerator so she and her husband could go on dates. Besides, her daughter was starting to eat baby cereal.
We trusted Cheryl completely as she was an experienced mother of five while we were merely on our first.
So at 5:00pm we dropped Millie off at Cheryl's house. We couldn't help but notice how excited the older sisters were to have two babies to care for that evening instead of just one. We left to enjoy dinner at a nice restaurant followed by a movie at 8:00. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed our date and didn't return to pick up Millie until 10:30pm, five and a half hours after we dropped her off.
When we arrived back at Cheryl’s house, we found Millie peacefully sleeping in the arms of one of the older daughters. Cheryl gave us the full report. Millie was happily entertained by Cheryl's two oldest daughters who had had plenty of experience entertaining their baby sister. Around 7:00pm, Millie was hungry and Cheryl brought Millie to her breast for dinner. Millie started nursing and then stopped. She let go of Cheryl’s breast and looked up at Cheryl as if to say, "Wait a second. You're not my mom and you taste different." Then Millie seemed to shrug off the differences because she was hungry. She latched right back on Cheryl's breast and drained it.
Three hours later, Millie was hungry again and this time Millie greeted Cheryl's breast with alacrity, without hesitation or reservation, like Cheryl and her breast were old friends.
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FIRST SIDE NOTE based on other men commenting on their own breastfeeding experience:
We have four children and they all nursed at least ten months, and as long as 20 months for our first child Millie. While my wife was nursing each of our four children, I would nurse at least once before her milk dried up. But the rule was this: If I started, I had to finish. That is, once I started nursing which caused her milk to let down, I had to drain the entire breast because it was uncomfortable for my wife to be engorged carrying around a fully-loaded breast.
I have never been a milk drinker and I found that I especially didn’t like drinking warm milk, especially an entire breast full of warm milk, but I did like nursing my wife’s breast as it sprayed milk into my mouth. During the 20 months that my wife was breastfeeding Millie, I nursed maybe three times, Two years later, when my wife’s breast were producing milk for our second child, I had forgotten that I didn’t like milk, especially warm milk, especially an entire breast full of warm milk, and so I again nursed from my wife’s breast . . . once or twice. This process repeated itself two years later when we had another nursing baby, and again three years later with our fourth and final nursing baby. I mostly nursed for the novelty and the kink and my curiosity. I suppose if I pushed myself to nurse more, I would have acquired a taste for an entire breast full of warm milk.
SECOND SIDE NOTE ABOUT HOW TO NURSE:
My wife had to teach me how to properly nurse. I learned that you don’t just latch onto the nipple and suck. To nurse properly, you really don’t suck at all and it’s not really about the nipple. You need to get more of the breast into your mouth so the nipple is well inside your mouth. Then you use your tongue to press up and behind the nipple to push the breastmilk out. It’s like milking a cow with your hand. You hand doesn’t suck on the udder of the cow and you don’t put your hand on the tip of udde0r. You put your hand high up on the udder above the milk in the udder. Then you squeeze the udder while pressing down to push the milk out of the udder.
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