Eats on Feets -Breast Milk-Sharing group

Specialties Ob/Gyn

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FROM TIME:

Move Over, Milk Banks: Facebook and Milk Sharing

JENNIFER BLOCK

NOV 22, 2010

...Women have been sharing breast milk for eons (remember wet nurses?), but the practice has been stigmatized in modern society, especially in the age of HIV. Milk banks screen and pasteurize donated milk and give priority to premature and very ill babies, essentially preventing most families from accessing the milk. And for those who can get banked milk, it is often prohibitively expensive: $3 to $5 per oz., upwards of $100 for a day's supply.

Eats On Feets GLOBAL is a milk sharing network.

It is a place where women who want breastmilk for their babies can find women who have breastmilk to share.

The details of milk sharing arrangements and relationships are to be negotiated between the donors and recipients.

Participants are making an informed choice to share human breastmilk and understand both the risks and the benefits.

Human milk is the biological norm for human babies.

Some pathogens MAY be passed through human milk.

Flash heating may kill pathogens.

Blood screening is available through your local health resources.

Please follow safe handling and preparation guidelines.

We are NOT providing medical advice.

Participants should contact their health care provider(s) to discuss risk.

For more information please visit:

Eats On Feets - human milk for human babies

Thoughts?

Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.
Hep B is not found in breast milk.

No, but it is in blood, and especially in the early days/weeks of breastfeeding, there may be nipple trauma and bleeding. Sometimes there's bleeding that the mother isn't even aware of. For that reason, I would not accept donor milk from a woman who had tested positive to HBV.

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