Dear Friends:

This is bloody insane!! Insurance companies won't pay for donor milk or
Prolacta products because they are costly.

But insurance will pay for a life time of diabetes, or short-gut syndrome
(from the NEC that has a good chance of occurring as a result of using the
wrong proteins). Plus all the other sequelae of artificial feeding as a
mother will be less committed to exclusive or long-term breastfeeding when
the NICU, where her baby's life is being "saved", is using cow protein.

Talk about pennywise and pound foolish!!

GRRRR!


> "....unfortunately babies over 1000 grams in my unit must be give
> Ross HMF which is derived from cow's milk, but generally well
> tolerated.this is
> due to budgetary reasons as insurance companies are not reimbursing for
> prolacta fortification or donor milk..."


warmly,
Nikki Lee

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