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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