Citation
Palmquist, Aunchalee E. L. (2016). The Gift of Milk: How Altruistic Milk Sharing Practices Empower Women.. Smith, Paige H. & Labbok, Miriam (Eds.) (pp. 256-262). Amarillo: Praeclarus Press.
Abstract
"Milk sharing" is an emergent infant feeding practice in which a breastfeeding mother nourishes a child who is not her own biological offspring, through privately negotiated altruistic breast milk gifts. Milk sharing via private arrangement is often called informal, casual, or peer-to-peer milk sharing, which are terms that distinguish it from breast milk donations that are processed and distributed by a human milk bank (Akre, Gribble, & Minchin, 2011; Geraghty, Heier, & Rasmussen, 2011; Gribble & Hausman, 2012). Altruistic milk sharing is distinct from milk selling, which involves marketing breast milk for profit. While milk sharing and other forms of cooperative breastfeeding (e.g., wet nursing, cross-nursing, co-nursing) and have always existed in the U.S., percolating just beneath the surface of mainstream social consciousness, it was the use of online social networking sites that catapulted milk sharing into the public gaze, transforming it into a bona fide social phenomenon.
URL
https://stores.praeclaruspress.com/it-takes-a-village-the-role-of-the-greater-community-in-inspiring-and-empowering-women-to-breastfeed/Reference Type
Book Section
Year Published
2016
Author(s)
Palmquist, Aunchalee E. L.
ORCiD
Palmquist - 0000-0002-0848-6952
