breastfeeding mom would you if you don't allready donate breastmilk?

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to a needy baby or even continue to lactate past when you're nursling weaned for someone elses baby?

what about without a milk bank I'm sure you can legally give it away if you are trustworthy and disease free ...I'm not even gonna go there dragonfly!

awesome jen *hugs*

oh lililou that does sound a hell of a lot creepier to me than just letting someone else give milk formula is not ''just as good'' and even if a wet nurse had a few bad habits or some scenario it woould most likely outweigh the risks of formula feeding just look at what is listed in formula sometime!

tanya you are pretty well a guru how would I create an oversupply just pump a lot or what I'd rather noy use any herbs would this be a good way? right now I'm duking it out with thrush but I want to donate and do not have extra either

Answer 1

I would LOVE to be able to donate breastmilk, unfortunately my body decided that it would produce just enough for my current nursling. LOL My body doesn't take to pumps, so even fully engorged I only ever managed to pump out 3 oz total from both breasts. I actually belong to a birth board online, and after all of our babies were born there was a group of women that banded together and all pumped extra and gave their milk to another one of our mommies. She had just given birth to her 4th baby, and the only one she wasn't able to nurse. She had undergone a radical double mastecomy 5 years ago because of breast cancer, but desperately wanted her daughter to get breastmilk. I would live to be able to give a gift like that to someone.

Answer 2

If I had the chance, I would love to do it. How many times in our life do we get the chance to give someone such a precious gift?
There was a time when I had a freezer full of milk, and I was hoping I could donate it, but there are no banks where I live. Soon enough my baby went through a growth spurt and finished it all though.

I don't understand how some people can say breastmilk is not needed because we have formula. First of all, formula is never as good, and also, there are so many babies that are allergic to any type of formula, and breastmilk can actually save their lives.
I also don't understand why some women find it gross, to give their baby another woman's milk, but they think it's perfectly normal to give them milk from an animal.

Or what about the fact that they wouldn't use a wet nurse, because they don't want their baby bonding with another woman. Yet it's perfectly okay for their baby to bond with a... bottle? lol!

I struggled with a low milk supply when I first had my baby, and at the most discouraging times, I wondered what I'd do. I really didn't want to give her formula. I would be so grateful for donated breastmilk, or a friend, or sister who could nurse my baby. So I know, if I ever have the chance to help a baby and mother, I'll do it in a snap. And yes I would continue to lactate for a baby other than my own. Especially a friend's or family member's baby.

Answer 3

I would love to, but there's no milk bank where I live.

I would nurse a friend's baby in a pinch, or anything! I think cross-nursing is a wonderful thing if it's needed. My friend always joked to her husband that if she couldn't get to the baby while on a business trip and they ran out of milk, they'd just bring the baby over to my place.

The thing is, women have been doing this for each other for thousands of years, it's nothing new, it's just what they did. It has only been in the past 50 years where people are confused by wet or cross nursing.

I had a friend whose sister in law died suddenly and left a small baby behind. All the women in her family (big family, haha) donated milk or actually went to her home and nursed the baby. I can't think of a more amazing gift than that dedication to her memory for the child.

Answer 4

i don't be attentive to the place FlynnFamily have been given her counsel through fact she does not cite a source. In "drugs ans mothers' Milk" 2010, this drug is indexed as an L1, the designation for the main secure drugs for use via the breastfeeding mom. The 0.5 life (while 0.5 of it relatively is out of your blood flow) is 50-80 minutes, so the peak concentration can't be 4-5 hours. This antibiotic is the drug of determination for mothers with breast infections and while taken on my own, shouldn't reason a topic for the breastfeeding toddler. Breastfeeding mothers prefer a dose of the drug which would be efficient. i think it relatively is often approximately 500 mg. The efficient dose is the comparable for breastfeeding mothers as different females.

Answer 5

Id consider it. Although my kids were just a year apart and I didnt have the extra time for it.

In other countries, women can actually sell it. One woman in Denmark or somehwere like that bought a car.

Then theres the pasteurization issue. Theres even some movements here to legalize unpasteruized cows milk. Theres already a market for it.

Also just read - in something just a few days ago. About some genetically altered cows milk, to be more humanlike. Im far more for donating and pastuerizing than that, that freaks me out.

Answer 6

I actually looked into this. Unfortunately, due to a medication I'm on, the bank turned me down. They actually said, "But if you decide to stop taking your medication, call us back." I'm not kidding.

I would 100% donate to a bank while nursing my own baby if it were feasible. I don't think I would go beyond my own weaning time for a bank, although I would consider it for someone I knew.

Side note in response to above- here in CT, "raw" cow's milk is legal. It's somewhat more expensive than pasteurized but highly prized by those who feel too much gets destroyed in the pasteurization process.

Answer 7

Yes I would, but banks like that don't exsist here in western Kansas. Breastmilk has sooooo much more in it that is good for babies expecially those premies... That is why you see all these mothers of premies in the hospital in the Tranquility rooms pumping milk. That milk may be what that baby needs to get better faster, expecially since the babys systems are not completely developed.

Answer 8

Absolutely. If I already had a high end or hospital grade pump, I'd be donating either now and/or after my daughter weaned. I know a few people who do donate to milk banks & I think it's awesome.

Answer 9

donate while currently breastfeeding... absolutely yes... I know of many who do it... I didn't have an oversupply, but in the future plan on creating an oversupply to donate at least one 100oz batch (our local bank only takes them in batches). I know of one lady who has done this in the past, and is doing it right now with her 5th child. I think it's an awesome thing to do!!

past my own? yes, but depending on the situation... if it were my niece or nephew, I'd start relactating today, even though my daughter weaned 3 years ago this week!! if it were someone else I knew, the situation would have to be fairly severe for me to do it beyond my own child's time.

Answer 10

Wow I never thought of this what a great idea! People used to hire wet nurses before baby formula. Are wet nurses still around? Jen Byou brought tears to my eyes