There is also a hospital in Malaysia that arranges a regulated form of milk sharing between mothers for infants in the NICU to get around the milk sibship issue. A paper has been published on this in Breastfeeding Medicine. Hsu, H.-T., T.-V. Fong, et al. (2011). "Human milk donation is an alternative to human milk bank." Breastfeeding Medicine Ahead of print.
Karleen Gribble
Australia


On 15/05/2012, at 1:40 AM, Susan Johnson wrote:

> Renee, it is true that Muslim traditions re milk sibs are a barrier to "traditional" pooled milk banks.  However, I ran into something amazing a few years ago in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
> 
> An extraordinary woman arranged for "orphan" babies to receive donor milk directly from one mother each.  There was a "contract" that assured each family that the milk came from one mother exclusively and that there would be no further expectation from the donating mother/family and no future concern re marriage.  Even more amazing, many of the donating mothers developed a relationship with the baby for whom they pumped (but did not know) and went on to adopt the babies who received their milk.
> 
> The woman who made this happen was a La Leche League Leader and a community activist capable of moving mountains.  
> 
> While this model is logistically challenging in light of pooled milk banks, it does raise the bar for milk sharing.  When I expressed exactly how moved I was by her actions, the woman who moved mountains was surprised.  It was just one of the things she did in her world. 
> 
> Susan Johnson MFA, IBCLC
> Salt Lake City, Utah USA


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