I know that everyone else in the world including the Swedes pasteurize donor
milk, but we don't.

When we give donor milk to a baby, the donor's coded ID number is recorded
in the baby's chart, and the recipient's ID info is recorded with the milk
bank, much the same way that we do for donor blood.  We don't go through the
typing and cross-matching part as for blood products, but as far as possible
babies are only given milk from a single donor.  Milk from that donor will
be 'reserved' for the same baby until the baby no longer needs it.  Most of
our babies only get donor milk for a very short time, until their own
mothers are producing enough for them.  

It sounds as if the donor milk being processed by Prolacta is being pooled
from more than one donor.  Can anyone confirm or deny this?  Also, what is
the practice in HMBANA milk banks?

If milk is pooled, how do you track down who the baby got milk from?

Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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