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?

No I wouldn't except if I had a tiny baby in SCBU in which case I would be willing to risk it. I find the idea of putting an unknown human's bodily fluids in my baby totally repellent. Sorry - but you did ask!

karma, mistakes are made with formula as well. People not making up bottles correctly so not killing the bacteria in the powder and there have been quite a few contamination scares.

No because I read somewhere that the antibodies are only effective if the milk is from the baby's own mother. Aparently, that is why babies that were fed by a wet Nurse never seemed to benefit regarding health. I might consider it from a nutrient point of view though.

"but accepting a product from someone else's body is a non life or death situation is totally another"

But cows milk is from a body!

fanny, but not an unknown cow's?

no I wouldn't

1)logistics
2) and more importantly I wouldn't trust the screening - what with all the problems there have been with infected blood. It's not a life or death choice there is a reasonable alternative (formula) so no.

No I wouldn't....like others have said already there is a good enough substitute

Powdered because it would last longer, and I'd be worried if I was using fresh BM that their could be a supply problem If they could powder it, you could build up a stock.

No. Absolutely not.

Oh, and powdered would probably make it cheaper. You could move more volume for less cost etc.

Probably not TBH.
I am curious about why bubbleymummy is interested. market research?

No! Because of the risk of diseases being passed from the woman to my baby. I know they are screened but what about all the people who caught HIV from blood transfusions before we knew it exsisted. Or CJD which is hard to diagnose and is not screened for.

I trust myself to make up the bottles properly though, so I wouldn't worry about that.

kreecher - it was inspired by the aptimil containing fish thread. No market research! :)

well you can still get contaminated powder karma.

I wonder why people put so much faith in something manufactured by a company out to make money rather than a mother donating her own milk? Obviously it should be screened - and screening has certainly come a long way.

I see, I don't even know what Aptimil is
I had horrible visions of you harnessing a load of lactating women in the third world and freeze drying their breast milk.
I think I saw a Simpsons episode where the children were served rats milk at school.

OMG, some of you do NOT want to know what diseases and bacteria can be involved with milking a cow.....that is why they have to disinfect the raw milk to within an inch of turning it to hot water....

You know dairy never used to bother me, but since I have had DS2 in the UK with the whole BM/FT thing being such a big discussion. The more I think about it the more it creeps me out that we drink milk from cows.

It is weird, why do we do it? and why does eating a steak not have the yuck factor for me that drinking glass of milk does?

I am happy to eat other animals but not drink their milk.

Can you imagine enough women 'donating' breast milk to supply all babies? I can't. They'd want paying. Which throws up lots of ethical issues.

Yuck! Funny how we find certain animal's milk ok and other animal's milk (and even human milk sometimes!) yucky! If we could all go out and buy bottles of breastmilk in the shop we probably wouldn't think anything of it. :)

Also, once we start going down the route of turning BMinto a commodity, once money came into it (as it inevitably would) and it was just a nother product then it would end up being so far removed from BM as we see it now that I hardly think it would be worth it.
Once all the screening is done, the pasteurisation (assume that would eb necessary) all the processes to prolong its shelf life etc...
No, BM is a great thing - commercialising it would tuen it into something else altogether.

And, as someone else said, isn't what makes BM so great that it is naturally teilored to the 'intended' baby?

animals'

Never Google Cows and Mastitis....ewwww

I would be wary of purchased human milk but not donated. There is nothing in it for a BM door other than a 'feel good' factor. Throw money into the equation and you are going to get junkies etc donating for money.

Donor not Door obviously.

doors don't lactate.