> I called to donate my own milk.  they explained to me that they were over
> run with milk and were not accepting  any donations unless you were on a
> dairy free diet.  I kinda felt dissuaded.

Doesn't that kind of say something?  I.e. that they need to get more
people processing the milk, or open up another bank or something?  There
are so many babies who could profit from human milk, and a lot of them
are turned down, even if they want to pay the hefty sum for it, just
because they are not the first priority (i..e not preemies, or babies
severely allergic to all formulae).  :-(

That aside...you can always look into personal donation I guess.  :-)  A
lot of moms are willing to go that route.

I donated to a mom who had had a breast reduction for 8 mos.  She was
never able to give ONLY human milk to her baby, even with my 4-8 oz per
day, but she figured that less formula was better than more.

Fio
ressource person for Allaitement Québec
Mama to Sandrine, 2yo! and #2, 11/2002

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