Dr. Wight offers an excellent summary of the study, it's findings and her
thoughts on both.  The key phrase in her post is:


³That said, the most important facet of this study that calls into question
the importance of some of the results is that both the DM and PF (preterm
formula) groups did receive approximately 50% of their enteral intake as
their mother's own milk.
There was no pure donor milk group. This may have washed out some of the
differences."

This is a well-done study which flies in the face of common sense and
intuitive reasoning:  Infants given (donor) human milk would be expected to
do better than infants given powdered fortifier.

The study must not be ignored but any doctor who uses the study as a reason
to given artificial supplements instead of making a strong effort to obtain
donor human milk (and, of course, the mother¹s own milk) is wrong.

As a small side note, the national news stories about the ³dangers² of using
donor milk are absurd.  With truly rare exceptions, even the least-screened
donor milk carries fewer dangers than infant formula.

Jay Gordon, MD, IBCLC, FABM, FAAP

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