can you legally sell breast milk?

Answer 1

http://www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.com/content/1/1/26
Premature infants who are fed infant formula have a higher risk of developing necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) than when they are fed human milk, either mother's own milk or banked donor milk]. In this regard, donor milk banking could be considered preventive "medicine" in the premature population; by reducing the incidence of NEC and optimizing central nervous system development, the premature infant has a better start in life than he would have if fed premature infant formula.

I don't know where you live, but I read a magazine article about one of the Scandinavian countries which pays for breast milk for premature babies. Donors have to go to the hospital and it is extracted there.
From what I can find, in US all breast milk donors offer their milk on a volunteer basis and are not paid.

Check out
http://www.thewholewomaninc.com/milk_bank.htm
(San Fernando Valley)
http://familybirthcenters.com/fortmyers/breastmilkbank.html
http://www.4woman.gov/breastfeeding/index.cfm?page=359
For locations of milk banks, check
http://www.hmbana.org/index.php?mode=locations
http://www.nationalmilkbank.org/faq.html
NMB does not compensate donors for milk. However, they do cover all related expenses.

Answer 2

Yes, but who would buy it? Milk banks and hospitals only take DONATED milk. No individual could supply enough to justify a payment plan and the cost would become prohibitive. As it is, it is something like $2.50 per ounce. Milk banks and hospitals are required to pasturize the breast milk before they can pass it on.

Now, there are individual mothers who likely would pay a mom for supplies and gas and maybe even a set amount for the milk she supplies, but most are just going to donate the milk anyway.

Answer 3

In the US you are going to have to find a family and make private arrangements, that might not be an easy thing to do. I would look into watching other children in the neighborhood. If you have great English skills (and are a good editor) there are several online sites that will pay you to edit papers and online articles, my friend did this as a stay at home mom, however she did have an English degree. And if you need the money, I would suggest to you to stop drinking wine and beer now, they are both expensive (and I am not saying that because I am anti drinking, I bf and do enjoy a drink now and then, and enjoy a more than 'a' drink now and then before my little one arrived).

Answer 4

you can legally sell breast milk t a breast milk bank at a hospital but you cant sell it on to others without doing this, it nedds to be screened etc.

Answer 5

I have no idea. I don't see why not, can you not sell vegetables you grow in your garden, or milk from a cow that you keep?

I reckon it'd be ok to. Assuming all the legal requirements with food hygiene and the like are met. Hopefully someone will come along who knows =)

Answer 6

There's a woman in South Africa who makes milk chocolate with her breast milk and sells it,and,amazingly,it seems the demand for it far outstrips what she can produce.(I wouldn't imagine that she'd be able to produce a great amount of chocolate as production would depend on how much milk she can produce;either that or each batch only contains a tiny amount of milk).

Answer 7

Why would you wanna sell your breast milk, I'm sure you could donate it to Third world instead

Answer 8

I think you can donate breast milk not sell it

Answer 9

They dont sell it, but they do bank it and distribute it to neonatal unites, and ship it to 3rd world countries, like places in africa to feed to the AIDS babies.

It saves lives. Babies who otherwise would have no immune systems, or white blood cells are able to thrive away from their mothers. Every breast feeding mom should look into it.

Answer 10

I have never heard of anyone selling breastmilk, and I don't know if you can leagally sell it, but I know that you can donate breastmilk.