to ask if you would use donated breastmilk if it was available rather than formula?

[bubbleymummy]

Inspired by another thread.

I personally would rather use donated milk. If you wouldn't - why not?

MissyKlo re breastfeeding and bonding. I actually found that I bonded better with my DD when we moved to bottles. I could just never get the hang of breastfeeding, I dont know what I was doing wrong but it was agony for months so I think that bond you speak of is the ideal but its not unfortunately always the case. Am sure that this baby due in 2 weeks is going to be an effortless feeder

No but only because I'd be worried it hadn't been properly screened for anything that could harm my baby. Also unless the women it came from have a healthy blanced diet is it really any better for a baby than formula?

I think it's great that some women donate their breast milk to special care baby units though.

Carolina yes can see what you are saying and of course not ideal all the time x

Didnt read all, to OP - No absolutely not. Formula is fine.

Lol pommedeterre :)

Seriously though, I don't think people necessarily think that ff makes you stupid. Just that bm is the norm and meets all the baby's developmental needs and fm can't replicate that.

Yes and I have. I'm eternally gratefull to the donors too.

Somone up thread said " there is a good alternative to breastmilk" and I'd like to disagree.

Breastmilk is the absolute best thing for premature or really poorly babies. A premature baby who has Donated EBM is less likely to die than one that has formula.

Hi saffy, yes even bm from mcdonald's eating mothers is better than fm :) It was discussed earlier on the thread!

alt, no I meant that 'thrive' in the way I thought the other poster meant was different to how you meant it.

My last to you was not having heard of bm fed babies not thriving.

I am not riled that people say ff babies are healthy no at all Jeremy

I do find noodles assessment that there is no diff between ff and bf highly amusing though

But I will let her live with her head stuck in the sand on that one as it obviously makes her feel good

Chill out MissyKLO lol. I have no idea why my comments have caused you to make remarks at me twice when I said it doesnt matter either way and fair enough what anyone chooses. I think its rather strange tbh.

Newsflash - a mother's diet has no bearing on the quality of her milk. I know that some ff mums like to tell themselves it does to perhaps make themselves feel better, but, it doesn't.

Genuine roffle at the idea of a baby getting a taste for McDonalds via it's McD-snaffling mother.

"What we can say now is it really, genuinely looks as if breastfeeding increases intelligence and the longer you breastfeed the cleverer the child will be, although it is not a huge difference."

My brother was FF I was BF we're pretty much equal. My DD was mix fed and is very bright, my DS was FF and looks like he's going to be very bright too. I can't bring myself to care too much about a couple of IQ points here or there.

I've read so many times on forums that BF babies get tastes of food through the BM. Is this not actually true then? Or do they only get to taste the good food ?

I don't know anyone who breastfed past the first couple of weeks.

I don't know any children with severe alergies or who are constantly ill.

The fact is that while some factors do increase or decrease the risk of certain things happening that risk is so tiny as to be insignifficant.

formula-feeding is considered dangerous in the developing world not because of the formula but because of the lack of access to clean water and sterilising facilities. That's not the same as saying that formula kills babies but it is logical to dress it up as such.

But if women in the 3rd world had access to expressing facilities those same babies would still be at risk because bottles were being cleaned with contaminated water.

In the UK though these risks do not exist. and while there are benefits to breastfeeding, there are not the perceived risks to formula feeding.

There are no benefits to breastfeeding though, it is just the biological norm. Formula feeding has drawbacks.

Breast milk takes on different flavours, depending on what the mother has eaten (although realistically only stringer flavours), but are people seriously suggesting that a baby is a). going to be able to identify those flavours, and b). years later, post weaning, remember which ones they preferred, match them up to the actual foods, and then go out and seek them out?

Stronger flavours.

Yep if i couldn't bf myself.

Would be happy to donate milk too.

Would obviously want to ensure milk is safe first though.

was it bubbleymummy? didn't read all the pages as it appears this thread is a BF vs FF debate. yawn!

Like I said I'd rather take my chances that my babies will grow up thick with allergies than feed them milk that may not have been properly screened. I'm a baaad mummy!

wannabe, the consequences of ff may not be as disastrous as they are in developing countries but babies are more likely to get certain illnesses if they are ff in this country.

5DollarShake I have seen that exact argument used in a pro-BF way yes. The argument I'm thinking of (I don't think it was on MN) was relating to the recent research that suggested babies be weaned onto food before 6 months in part to expose them to different tastes. It was suggested that this was not necessary for EBF babies because they would be experiencing the tastes through their mothers milk anyway. I must say I was a bit so I just wondered if it was true they get tastes so no need to wean before 6 months, or if not so it doesn't matter if you eat rubbish. I intend to BF my next baby and wondered if it would grow up with a taste for pizza LOL.

I think if you ate McDonalds and then fed them McDonalds when weaning them they might make an association.
Apparently they particularly like garlicky breastmilk.

No.