Todays moral dilema

[Beabea]

I have a friend visiting who breast feeds her 1yr old son. As he is not with her on this trip she has had to express some off. Should she have thrown away her milk or fed it to my 5week old son.

It doesn't quite sit right with us but we can't really say why.

And as for bm and your own diet, yes some children can react on certain things....but sometimes it's also to easy to come to the wrong conclusion!
BM changes with every feed, not jsut depending on the age of the child but also on how long your child was feeding for for example
And yes, I agree if I recieved donated bm from a milk bank, yes I would like to know that milk was tested, and no HIV or maybe Hepatitis (not sure about the transmittance of that one through bm, tbh) virus was in there...but a friend that I know and trust, not a problem and not a problem to return the favour, alhtough usually it then would be matter of feeding directly rather then ebm of course!

From when BM is from birth until mums finish feeding, 1, 2, 3, years.

I dont know if it was told right or wrong. HV and my GP told me I should not BF DD. She was 14 weeks at the time.

I am off to bed now, I should have been there hrs ago.

Can someone send me some BM to make me feel better.

I drink goat milk now, but I have been told not to give it to DC. (HV and GP) I dont even know now if that is true or not, to be the right info.

Oh, Hazelnuts

Just cross because I hate misinformation about bfeeding.

Not cross with you as such, iyswim?

Sleep well.

sorrell diet would change your milk, If you went on a very poor diet or you were not feeding yourself enough, then your mlik would be of very poor value to your baby.

You only get out what you put in.

Hazelnuts, that's not true either, I'm afraid.

same here, not cross with you just that I hate myths and such like being continoued, as bf rates are already low.....hope you feel better soon, sadly not lactating anymore myself, otherwise I would be ahppy to oblige with a cup of bm, lol ;)
Night night, and thik I shall do teh same Am knackered and it is...omg past 1 o'clock, ah well, not really haha...times gone back right? or was it forward, sigh, I shall never remember

sorry hunkermunker. I a bit think when it comes to iyswim.

What does that mean?

I think some of you on this thead are being unnecessarily agressive.

If someone does not know what you know, don't you think it is the height of rudeness to populate your posts with FFS and FGS!

Sheesh! If this is how you choose to educate...

oops I put wrong words too [bluch]

think = thick

Soapbox, I've apologised.

Hazelnut, nope not true, women in 3. world countrys can feed succesfully, they do feed more often, but than that is the norm over there and the availability, light closing and usually being carried in a sling do help with that
Saying that in our society it is not acceptable really, well, peeps would point the finger!
Saying that, it's not good to go on crash diets, 3'd worls women start out undernbourished and without fat around them, and it's fat that stored all the toxins in our bodys, so, to go on a crash diet is probably not got, as all the toxins will be resleased into the blood and from there go into Breastmilk, so, not so nice a though....hence the advice only to loose weight slowly if bf, 1 pound a week-ishI know that was not quite the point, but thought I say this anywya

It's an acronym, Hazelnuts - shorthand for if you see what I mean.

3andnomore it will be 1am again in the next hr

Just checked but I don't think I have sworn...but if I have, I do apologise of course!

hunkermunker Thanks It noted now with the acronym

oh dear, deifnately better find my bed me thinks...oh darn, bet the Kids will be up early in the morning, like 5am, lol!

oh hello did I miss something

Sorry I didnt realise I had posted this twice. PC froze. Anyway the whole thing was a hypothetical as my visiting friend was expressing off her excess milk. I did explain on the other thread.

Bea fair enough...think we had a good discussion here anyway, lol!

I think hazelnut, your GP gave you bad advice. I can't quite figure out what was the point.

Mothers of very young babies who get chickenpox are sometimes quaranteened from their babies for a week or so after spots appear, because mother might give CP to the baby, and it can be quite risky in a very new baby. This applies however the baby is being fed. The risk of a 14 week old getting CP is not nearly so bad, though. Coincidently, I can say my child had CP at 14 weeks and was fine(!), not caught off me, I hasten to add.

That would be the only risk of br'feeding when you had CP, that child might get it too (just from the contact)... and if that was seen by your GP as a terrible risk, you should have been kept apart completely (no contact at all) from your child for a week after spots appeared (and a week before in theory, but nobody knows they have it the week before).

So I can't figure out your GP thought they were doing.

And that's the other thing that puzzles me, since nobody knows they have chicken pox until the spots appear, and then it's usually only contagious for 3 days after the spots come out. 5 days in severe cases, so call it 7 days if you're being ultra-cautious, but how could a GP (FFS, of all people) not know how long CP is contagious for, and thus advise 2 WEEKS off breastfeeding???

flack - because on the whole, GP's don't know anything about breastfeeding.

Sad, shocking, staggering, but true.

I am resigned to that Caligula, but surely they should be clued up about how long chickenpox is contagious for!!

I think they think breastfeeding is contagious!

If only.