Carol,
>whatever precautions they use currently to prevent formula being given to
>breastfed babies, or one baby's formula being given to another, should work
>just as well for preventing giving one baby's breastmilk to another by
>mistake.
>
>and if they don't have procedures and precautions to prevent formula mixups,
>they are way behind. . . .

And potentially risking a baby's life. I met a mother the other day who
was telling me her baby was so allergic to standard formula, his skin
would blister if he *touched* it. She breastfed him for a year, and then
put him on soya milk, but if he had been in daycare and if he hadn't
been breastfed, imagine if this baby got a bottle of standard formula
accidently! It surely could have killed him? Entirely hypothetical, I
grant, but I believe it could happen.
--
Anna H.
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