No matter how good the system is, of checks and rechecks and triple checks, people who are overworked will always make mistakes (so will people who are not overworked, none of us is 100% perfect). At the time my milk was mistakenly given to another woman's infant in Indiana, there was a freezer in the NICU absolutely jam-packed full of milk from probably 10 or 12 different mothers. And there were probably 20 babies in Peter's NICU, and two other NICUs on the floor (one for preemies, and one for serious problems). The nurses did a pretty darn good job of getting the right milk, in the right order, to the right baby (colostrum first, once the baby could take milk by mouth, 2nd day milk next, 3rd day milk after that, etc.). There will continue to be medication errors, blood transfusion errors, organ donation errors, surgical errors (removing the body part from the wrong side of the body), and mother's milk given to the wrong baby. A better way to cut down on the error rate would be to have more nurses, shorter shifts, fewer babies for each nurse to care for, etc. In the grand scheme of things, I'd say that last source of infection I would worry about for my child in the NICU was human milk, no matter who it was from. Kathy Dettwyler _________________________________________________________________ All the action. All the drama. Get NCAA hoops coverage at MSN Sports by ESPN. http://msn.espn.go.com/index.html?partnersite=espn *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html