Jacquie
I found your post very interesting and moving. I am conducting a study of peer to peer milk sharing (the recent internet facilitated variety) and have nearly finished analysing the responses of the donor mums. For many of these mums knowing where their milk is going and how much the milk is needed is an important motivator for them in continuing to donate milk. Many of them started out just donating a freezer "stash" but then became ongoing donors because they could see the difference that their milk made. I think that it is pretty rare for milk banks to provide donors with information about where their milk goes but it would perhaps be something that would help recruit and retain donors.
Karleen Gribble
Australia
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Subject: Milk banking and HIV

Hello Fay

Thank you, and all who wrote, for your kind words.   I'm a tiny cog in this 
lovely milk bank, living far away as I do, but I forwarded your comments and 
we all appreciated your enthusiasm for our work


It was a touching time because his mother somehow was not always 
able to be there in NICU, but the local donors would come and visit, and 
seeing 'their' baby kept them supplying milk beyond the normal period.  None 
of them were very copious donors, but they soldiered on because they 
believed that Baby M needed them.

There is something about milk banking that I find so very emotive.  We have 
to be hard-headed about screening forms and tests and hospitals paying for 
milk, but underneath all that is a strong bond (in our committee certainly) 
that we simply have to keep on doing this because it's RIGHT.  And the donor 
mothers seem to feel it even more strongly.

Best wishes to all for this lovely week.
Jacquie Nutt IBCLC
Milk Matters
www.milkmatters.org

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