I have no experience at all with donor milk from milk banks. I have a child in my practice who has severe reflux, recently underwent surgery for G-tube and Nissen fundiplication who has been largely unable or unwilling to tolerate any formula. Baby is 2 mos old and has developed an oral aversion, I think from a combination of the reflux, many unpleasant oral experiences in the hospital, and the taste of Nutramigen. She seems to like the taste of some other formulas better, but has a lot of GI upset with them. For any of you with experience, would this be the type of thing insurance might be willing to cover human milk for? I have gently mentioned relactation/inducing lactation to this mom a few times, but her surgeon, dietician, GI doc have never even mentioned it (not even when baby was brand new and in the NICU for 4 days throwing up every formula presented, insert rolling eyes here.) These parents had a very difficult pregnancy and the baby was diagnosed prenatally with what was thought to be a lethal congenital anomaly, that turned out after birth to be no big deal, but they went through a lot emotionally, and I don't feel I can push this mom more to relactate without being able to guarantee some kind of results as she has been through so much pain caused by docs spouting opinions as fact. I think she'd be willing to give donor milk a try, though, if it might help get her baby eating orally. Baby is currently receiving most of her feeds through the G-tube, and fights every oral feed, and really seems to dislike the taste of her offered diet. Can someone tell me how I would go about looking into donor milk for this infant, or is this not an appropriate situation to try it? Jennifer Tieman Family Physician Mom to 4, including nursling Caroline Rose born 5/31/03 *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html