Have you ever seen the ads in the paper "You can make 8K working from home."? My first reaction to all that is it is a scam. However, I may have found a legit way for LA to make almost 8K while working at home and only have to work about 4 hours per day.
The other day we were having a conversation with another parent who also happens to be a doctor and I don't know how it happened but for some reason breast milk was topic of conversation. During our discussion, he mentioned a term that I had never heard before - "wet nurse". I paused the conversation and asked him exactly what was he talking about and he told me that there are women who after being pregnant or by taking medicine keep on making milk and get paid for it. I was pretty sure he was making this up as he went but he assured me this was happening - women beast feeding other people's children and people selling breast milk. So as any good blogger would do I did some research...
Unfortunately, in the Western (developed) hemisphere this seems to be a dying profession with the creation of breast milk banks that supply hospitals and the numerous manufactures of formula. Women who want to donate milk can send their milk to the bank where it is processed, screened, stored and then sent to hospitals for those who need. The bank charges a nominal fee for storing and shipping ($3 to $5 per ounce). Have you ever saw a bank that didn't charge a fee. So there's not much of an opportunity in this area. In third world countries this practice continues and actually during a UNICEF goodwill trip to Sierra Leone in 2009, Mexican actress Salma Hayek decided to breast-feed a local infant in front of the accompanying film crew. The sick one-week-old baby had been born the same day but a year later than her daughter, who had not yet been weaned. Hayek later discussed on camera an anecdote of her Mexican great-grandmother spontaneously breast-feeding a hungry baby in a village. (wikipedia - wet nurse, it's legit - I verified and there is a video on You Tube that I did not watch.)
The opportunity in all this is actually selling your milk for $$$ directly to the end user. You can get $1 or $2 per ounce. What!!!! The cash register is ringing. We are talking about $50 plus per day without much effort...talk about easy money ($350 per week). Of course this will be a cash only business...if you have to ask why, you don't need to know. It's not quite $8k per day but if she ramps up production, who knows how much liquid gold we could be selling weekly. There are even websites to sell your milk.
Time to get LA to work...financial freedom here we come.
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I am going to be honest and tell you upfront that I tried to make this a joke but this whole thing bothers me and weirds me out - actually nursing someone else's child, using milk from another person. I don't know what else to say - weird. I am sure there are some cases where it is necessary BUT I am 100% sure we would opt for formula.
Sorry LA, it's back to work.
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