> I sort of shudder to think of the self-centered person who would use banked milk, rather than making her own :-( < Why? It seems a logical response of someone in a consumer culture like ours who has heard the message about the benefits of breastmilk (given far more often than the benefits of breastfeeding in substance, if not in name -- e.g antibodies, digestibility, etc etc.). >All through history there have been this sort of mother and we don't want to make it easy for her. < If we don't want to make it easy for her, do we want to make it *harder*? Are we breastfeeding centred, woman centred or breast milk centred? Seems to me that individuals come down in different places and sometimes I know I come down in slightly different places at different times. If one is breast milk centred -- and I have read plenty of posts on Lactnet that suggest this orientation -- making it easy for women who don't want to breastfeed to get human milk for their babies is common sense. I am not advocating anything in particular here, but I would certainly suggest this is an issue which could do with thinking through. Magda Sachs Breastfeeding Supporter, BfN, UK *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html