Can I have some clarification of an issue regarding donar milk please from 
the wise women (and men!) on this list?

A midwife friend of mine transferred a homebirthed baby into the SCN. The 
baby required additional milk to what the mother could supply. Another 
homebirth mother who birthed the same day, donated her EBM for the SNC 
baby. 
While the mothers didn't know each other directly, they knew of each other 
having shared the same midwife. The SCN mother had seen recent blood tests 
of the donor mother so she knew the milk was "clean" and made an informed 
decision to give it to her baby over an artificial baby milk.

The nursery staff have issues with this.

My question is, are there issues justified in any way? The donar milk was 
not pasturised and the unit doesn't have a policy on donar EBM as they do 
not have a milk bank in the district. I would assume that the informed 
decisionof the mother to give donar milk would be her decision alone to 
make, regardless of hospital protocol i.e the right to refuse.

Can anyone share any thoughts on this?

Blessings,
Rachael 

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