Tony, thanks for the clarification.  The situations sound extreme to the
maximum.  If you want to push the envelope in favor of breastfeeding,
perhaps you could read up on the Mother's Milk Bank in Austin, Texas --
started by neonatalogists to provide mother's milk to all premature and
critically ill babies.  They also report some mothers who refuse to express
breast milk/breastfeed, and some mothers who can't because of distance,
their own illness, or whatever.  None-the-less, all the critically ill and
premature babies get breast milk once they are able to tolerate foods by
mouth.

The Milk Bank has a web page, and/or you can search the archives for posts
about it by Barbara Wilson-Clay.  I recall she reported to the list not too
long ago that all the neonatal intensive care units in Austin (a pretty big
city) were now using human milk from the milk bank, and no longer using
formula.

You could then do an in-service for the neonatalogists and NICU nurses (and
parents) about how critically important it is not to use formula.

Kathy Dettwyler
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