Kathy Eng <[log in to unmask]> wrote: With this topic of informal milk donations, I thought I would pass along LLLI's recent email on this topic.


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Dear friends,

It worries me that leading authorities in the breastfeeding field, like LLLI, put the use of human donor milk and directly nursing an other women's child is set in the light of a possible dangerous action. This seems to me to be counterproductive in the promotion and support of breastfeeding. If human milk is a possible danger to another child, how can it be safe and good for a woman's own child? 
I really wish the dangers of not breastfeeding or not being fed human milk would be taken as serious as these perceived dangers of human milk feeding. Risks of not breastfeeding are known and well referenced and the list of known hazards is still growing. How about the scientific basis for warning against the use of human milk vs not being fed human milk at all? I dare say this basis will be rather small.

Warmly,

Gonneke, IBCLC, LLLL in southern Netherlands


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