Woman posts photo of her breastfeeding nephew on Facebook, sparks wet-nursing conversation

(WTXF) - A woman is sparking a conversation on wet nursing after posting photos of her breastfeeding her nephew on Facebook.

My gorgeous little nephew! While my sister was at work today I tried to give him a bottle of her expressed milk a few...

Meg Nagle, from Australia, has a blog called The Milk Meg. According to the Independent, she says that she decided to feed the child herself following his rejection of bottled milk.

"I could see he was tired so I popped him on the boob and voila, he was asleep in minutes," she said in a post.

However, the post received some polarizing comments.

Some responded in a positive manner, with one person commenting that the two were "bonding through boob juice."

Another said, "I wouldn't care if my sister was baby-sitting and nursed my daughter. She is healthy and a non-smoker. Milk is milk. People drink cow's milk."

Some people disagreed with anyone but a child's biological mother breastfeeding a baby.

Another person wrote, "I personally get so anxious and angry inside just even thinking about someone else nursing my baby girl."

Nagle defended herself from the criticism and said that her sister knew she was breastfeeding her son.

"He has had a difficult time transitioning to the bottle since my sister returned to work. Sometimes he will not take it or it can be really difficult to get him to take it," she told Kidspot.

"I tried a couple of times to give him the bottle but he refused. I could see he was not hungry but really wanted to fall asleep. So I breastfed him and he was asleep in minutes.

"My sister and I had spoken about the possibility of me breastfeeding him if needed while she was at work and she was happy for me to do it."

Nagle defended wet-nursing saying: "Wet-nursing has been happening forever and continues to happen around the world. Most of us just don't talk about it."