Hi!

I have a question. On some posts, some of you speak of donating milk to a friend. When my first child, Javier, was born, he had hypoplastic left heart syndrome. During his month of life, I pumped and gave him my milk, although we never got him to latch very well. I had a huge supply and a very active MER and he would choke, which of course was terrible for him. So we stuck to bottle feeding my milk.

After he passed away, I had about ten litres of frozen breastmilk leftover. I didnt know about milk banks, but I could have given it to a friend. However, since I wasnt into the LC business yet, I didnt know if it was safe or if the milk needed some kind of treatment. I am healthy, have no diseases of any kind... but still, I was afraid to offer the milk to my friend and finally threw it all away.

When any of you donate milk to a friend, do you just say here, this is for you? Or do you do anything special?

Thanks.

Kika Baeza
Family Physitian. Madrid, Spain
Mom to little angel Javier, Laura (bf at 17 months), and 7 month pregnant... I hate this heat!!!

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