Sponsored milk donation - ethical? anyone done it?

[emmajlh]

I'm considering doing a sponsored milk donation once i have BF established with DC2 (due in april). the money would go to a milk bank as it costs £100 to process every litre of milk donated. With DC1 i produced way to much BM and she was never interested in milk i'd pumped.

Does anyone think there is anything unethical about this?

Has anyone ever done anything like this?

never heard of it
people pay for your bm? the people themselves or an organisation?

oh i see
penny has dropped

don't see anything unethical about it at all - helps raise the profile of milk donation and raises money for a good cause, as well as obviously providing bm for a babywho needs it

i didn't know that there were still milk banks - when I had my DS I had so much milk I could have given craven a run for their money and I jokingly remarked to my HV that I should be giving it away.
She told me that sort of thing was stopped years ago due to HIV etc.
lol good old HV - what a shame tho that I didn't know about them.

What a great idea!

Don't think it's unethical at all. You're simply raising funds for a charity and, as Stealth says, raising the profile of human milk banking.

Wish I'd thought of it when I was donating BM.

I get really quite mad that this isn't funded properly by the NHS.

I wanted to do something similar for an infertility charity when I was having IVF by guessing the number of follicles! DH wasn't keen though.