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Wow, I am sadden by this new LLLI statement and agree with your remarks on
this Karleen. The LLLI statement is not balanced at all. It seems they
have written something up for liability reasons at the expense of moms and
babies. Getting donor milk from a milk bank (US, not sure in other countries)
would be VERY hard and unaffordable for a healthy baby and for any extended
length of time. Heck you can't even get it for sick newborns in the
hospital! I really would like to see a mom in the US call up the few milk banks
we have and ask if they can get even half of what is need for a healthy baby
for a year. What is the cost? Would it be covered by either private or
state funded health insurance? Who pays shipping and pick up? Does this add up
to less cost than formula? Will any US milk bank really be able to give
this to a healthy baby for any length of time? I highly doubt it.
LLLI should have had a statement about the risks of non milk bank
donations and THEN provide suggestions to make it safer. And then list the WHO ( I
think it is them) that lists donor milk 3rd choice and BEFORE formula as a
choice of milk for babies (milk at the breast 1st choice, then moms own
expressed as 2nd choice) . This current statement just limits moms and is a
fantasy that moms can easily call up a milk bank OR even go to her dr and get
their help and permission to use/get donor milk "correctly".
For my personal donors I have chosen what I feel comfortable with while
another mom might choose to do things differently to screen her donors. What
I pray NEVER happens is the only "correct" way to get donor milk would be
to go through drs and some "whatever" policy the fda, aap, or some other org
says is the only way to get donor milk.
Kim Ann Lorber----someone who has been blessed with donated breastmilk for
my baby by kind mothers and will continue singing the praises of donated
milk to everyone
LLL Leader Quad Cities IA/IL
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In a message dated 4/1/2011 6:10:39 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
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Someone recently alerted me to the new LLLI policy on milk donation and
sharing. http://forums.llli.org/showthread.php?t=100623
I am really disappointed that an *international* organisation that LLLI
seems to have developed this policy with resource rich contexts as the
focus
and not given due weight to the environments within which much of the
world's mothers care for their children ie environments that are
effectively
as bad as any emergency conditions (specifically excluded from the policy).
It also lacks a balanced presentation of the risks associated with any
feeding options other than a mother's own milk (direct from the breast) and
presents banked donor milk as a feasible alternative when we know how
valuable and rare and therefore largely unavailable banked donor milk is
(LLLI are not the first to do this but it is still disingenuous).
I'm just very disappointed.
Karleen Gribble
Australia
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