Baby care help

[Mosha]

Ok ladies sorry to invade your space bit a serious plea for help.

Our rubber tappers friend has a problem. They have a baby but the the mother has left. Why is not the issue. The baby is about 5 months and the dad has been giving it Hom Malik milk. Now I'm sure this is not the solution. We just learned tonight. However our tapper's wife has a 7 month old baby. She is breast feeding. Is she the best choice for the other baby?

Neither baby is Thai

[Boo]

There is nothing wrong with a baby having baby formula, expecting another woman to bf a child whilst bf her own is a bit presumptuous. Not all women produce enough milk to feed their own child. As long as the baby is being fed when needed & the bottles are sterile, then formula is perfectly fine.

[Mosha]

The substitute has milk a plenty. Friends are helping now.

[bina]

yes she can feed the other baby also if she wants to; the more she feeds the more milk she will produce; maybe she will need an extra amount of nutrition either with vitamins or meat/veggies/calcium products if she is not able to provide them due to financial problems. at five months it is possible to start the baby eating small amounts of cooked veggies/or mashed bananas and/or forumula as well... iron is the other thing both the surrogate mom and the baby might need... women have fed other peoples babies ofr thousands of years, and i personally know of two different women who breastfed someone else's baby for long periods of time due to illness of the mother or other problem, so its perfectly acceptable...