I'm a few weeks away from giving birth, and my breasts have already been leaking for weeks! This happened with my sister too, and after she had her kids, she produced excessive amounts of milk. I'm thinking I probably will too. If this is the case, I thought why not donate to mothers who can't produce milk or breadfeed for whatever reason(s), or why not make some money while on maternity leave?
2007-03-09 04:53:25 · 5 answers · asked by judy 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
You can donate the milk but not sell it. You can bring your milk to a local hospital and they store it and Mothers milk bank pick up the milk. Takes the milk and pasterizes it and bottles it up for premature babies. Talk to your lactation consultant at the hospital for more information.
2007-03-09 04:57:04 · answer #1 · answered by jess 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've heard of people donating their milk to hospitals to use with premature babies, but I don't think you can sell it. That would probably fall somewhere under the laws that prohibit sales of body parts. You can't sell your blood, but you can donate it. I think it's the same thing.
If you want to donate your milk, call the hospital where you give birth. If they don't know what to do with it, they can probably tell you who to get in touch with so that you can.
Good luck with your little one!
2007-03-09 05:34:35 · answer #2 · answered by Cloth on Bum, Breastmilk in Tum! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I wouldn't have bought someone else's breast milk. Perhaps there are screening centers for moms to do that, but if I didn't know the person I would not know if she drank alcohol, used drugs, or had some virus that could be passed to my baby. Also, I wouldn't know what she was eating, so it would make it harder to recognize possible allergies to those foods in my child. Anyhow, that's just my opinion, perhaps there is a market for it somewhere out there.
2007-03-09 04:58:28 · answer #3 · answered by Heather Y 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that is an AWESOME idea!! i had to give my first baby up for adoption and the adoptive parents used donated breast milk. here are a few links for you:
http://www.breastmilkproject.org/
http://www.thewholewomaninc.com/milk_bank.htm
http://mamaknowsbreast.com/2006/11/donating_breast_milk.php
2007-03-09 04:57:39 · answer #4 · answered by chingona1027 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i know how to extract the milk, but i dont know what to do with it afterwords. . .call the blood or sperm donation place in yer town, im sure they would know who to contact
2007-03-09 04:57:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋