On 14/05/2012 15:38, Celina Dykstra wrote:
> In the focus on the properties of human milk vs formula, the close physical relationship between mother and baby and the unique immunological benefits thereof are being totally missed.
>
Not 'missed', but not a part of this particular debate. The discussion 
was not about breast*feeding* vs. FF, an issue on which we're all 
agreed, but about donor milk vs. FF - i.e., how to deal with the 
situation where a baby is *not* receiving all of his or her food supply 
from breastfeeding. Donor milk and formula are both given from bottles - 
unless the mother uses a supplementer at the breast, which, equally, 
could be done just as well with either.

Since mode of feeding donor milk does not differ from mode of feeding 
breastmilk, that point isn't relevant in discussions of which to use in 
cases where something other than breastfeeding is required. This is of 
course not to say that it isn't an important point in other contexts, 
just that it isn't relevant in this particular discussion.


Best wishes,

Dr Sarah Vaughan
MBChB MRCGP

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