The Internet is split on how it feels about a Facebook picture featuring Jessica Anne Colletti breastfeeding her son and a friend’s son at the same time.
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Photo of breastfeeding both the children was posted on the Mama Bean Unconditional Attachment page, a community for parents that aims to celebrate breastfeeding.
She posted: “I watch her son while she works and have been feeding them both for a year”. So much love between these milk siblings, its a special bond between us all.
Mrs Colletti has been breastfeeding her friend’s son since he was just five months, after he struggled with formula, and says her friend was very much “on board” with the idea.
“My son on the right is 16 months and my friend’s son is 18 months”, Ms Colletti wrote. She knows everything about me and trusts me with the care of her child. I bet she is using mad calories nursing two!!!
Reflected others: ‘I would be so up set if a few one feed my babies I am there mum and I would feel so wrong to feed a few one else baby (sic)’.
Colleti and Interrante first met about 10 months ago at a photo session for new mums.
Jessica Anne Colletti hopped into the middle of “a milk storm” after revealing that she breastfeeds two toddlers at a time.
But their unique family unit and “milk siblings” arrangement has divided opinion on social media.
The post has already been liked 500 times, with many readers positive in their reaction to the picture.
“This looks like a porn film”, wrote one man.
An anonymous user said: “Why do people get so worked up over this?”
Another added: ‘Wet nurse.
Colletti has dismissed suggestions that there is anything sexual about their “family unit”, saying that critics are wrongly sexualising the natural and “beautiful” act of breastfeeding.
“More needs to be done to encourage wet nursing”.
The World health Organisation (WHO) recommends that breast milk from a “healthy wet nurse” is one of the best available alternatives to milk from a baby’s own mother.
Her son is 16-months-old while her friend’s child, who she babysits, is 18-months-old. “She knows I want nothing but the best four our boys, which is why she supports me breastfeeding our babies”.
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“May have to delete this post because of the male friend requests I’m getting now”, Mrs Colletti wrote.
