where you can get somebody else's breast milk for your baby. How would you feel if someone was trying to breast-feed your baby, or at least putting them on their boob. (It happend to with my son) I was apalled!!!
2007-05-18 16:17:01 · 11 answers · asked by Baby Julie due 5/12 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
I think breast milk banks are a blessing for some babies who need breast milk for health reasons. I am curious about what happened with your son--how did someone get a hold of him to put them to their breast?
2007-05-18 16:22:44 · answer #1 · answered by jilldaniel_wv 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I think that milk banks are wonderful, and that there should be more of them. I also think that health insurance should cover the cost of breastmilk from the milkbanks so that mothers who TRULY cannot breastfeed would not have to resort to formula.
As for someone else trying to nurse your baby...if they did it without your permission, then yes, it was wrong. However, I have nursed a friend's baby and it is no big deal. I would do it again if the need arised, and I would have let someone else nurse my babies if for some reason I couldn't have (as long as I knew the person and their medical history). It is so much better for the baby than formula!
2007-05-19 01:58:25 · answer #2 · answered by Cheryl S 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Milk banks are totally cool. There should be more of them. It used to be normal for women to nurse each others babies. In some places in the world, it still is. I heard about a village somewhere. The young children all know which women are currently breastfeeding, and when they get thirsty, they're free to ask any one of the nursing mothers for a drink. Personally, I babysat for my bottlefed nephew, and the little warming machine was so confusing that I would have preferred to just nurse him. My sister and brother-in-law are the ONLY anti-breastfeeding people in my family, so I knew that it would not be well received. As far as I'm concerned, nursing a friend's baby is fine. If baby's hungry, then baby's hungry!
2007-05-18 16:38:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
I think with proper testing methods, it would be no different than donating and receiving from a blood bank.
I have "wet-nursed" other babies before for friends who were in need of this. It really is no big deal, as another writer said. BF is good for babies -- it prevents ear infections, provides antibodies, prevents allergies, and provides loving skin-to-skin contact. America is just too caught up with the whole image thing, and don't understand that THAT'S what they are there for. If I knew and trusted another mom for her health, I would have no problem asking for her to BF my baby.
I think we need more positive eduation about BF in general, and maybe with more interest, more milk banks would be available.
2007-05-18 17:51:20 · answer #4 · answered by Sweet Eden 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
i am very pro-breastfeeding and i find the idea of the bank excellent if a baby can get breastmilk instead of formula. i guess the milk is fully screened and sterilised etc. however, i would be cautious about giving my baby someone else's breastmilk, you never know what they have eaten or they could have taken medications, drugs etc. i would also be appalled if someone else tried to breastfeed my baby! it happned to my sister, her baby was on formula and they were at a picnic and she had forgotten a bottle for him, another woman there who was breastfeeding her son said casually, 'don't worry, i've got plenty of milk if he needs a feed'.... i guess if it was an emergency you would do it but otherwise....
2007-05-18 16:24:25 · answer #5 · answered by uenuku 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I have not read anywhere where they are available to the general public. I had only heard that they were available for medical need and even then that there isn't enough supply.
On that note, if I could have had it available to give to my daughter, I would have done it in a heartbeat. If I'm going to pay for formula, why not pay for BM?
As far as someone else BF'ing my daughter, it'd have to be a life or death emergency for that to happen. Otherwise, I'll buy a new bottle and formula first.
2007-05-18 16:35:27 · answer #6 · answered by mommy of 1 pretty girl 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
someone else breastfeeding I wouldn't allow but you can order the breastmilk and bottle feed and it's a healthier alternative to formula even if formula isn't bad-I'm pro mommy choice of food- I think it's a great alternative especially for woman that want to bf but can't due to lack of milk production, adoption etc people that want to do it but lack the abilitty I guess
2007-05-18 16:21:25 · answer #7 · answered by Shawna 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I think there need to be more of them and moms need to have better access on both ends. To donate or to get milk WHEN THEY CANNOT MAKE IT THEMSELVES.
I would have no problem with a friend or family member breastfeeding my baby. My children deserve human milk!
2007-05-18 16:29:26 · answer #8 · answered by Terrible Threes 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Sounds gross to me. And dangerous. You cannot truely know if the milk is safe, because the woman could've taken medications, supplements, herbal products, etc. So much passes through breast milk that I cannot imagine why anyone would want their child to nurse from another person. Many of us would not share a drink with a stranger- why on Earth would someone let their child drink some stranger's breast milk??
2007-05-18 16:35:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋
not a problem. I actually have nursed another baby. Its no big deal, americans are jsut freaked out over breasts in general.
2007-05-18 16:23:08 · answer #10 · answered by parental unit 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋