Someone mentioned how the cost of domperidone can be as much as formula
sometimes, and that dads are sometimes reluctant to use it if they can
get that "other milk"...

Do you mention that that "other milk" costs as much as the domperidone? 
Or do they think that one cost isn't the same as the other?

In all honesty, I can understand someone who doesn't know a lot about
the risks of artificial feeding (and admitedly, a lot of our society
doesn't!) not wanting to pay for domperidone on TOP of formula, if the
mom is, say, an adoptive mom, or a mom who's had a breast reduction, who
has a very low supply (less than 50% maybe).  If they think "this is
going to cost as much as formula, and we STILL have to use 1/4 formula
even AFTER the domperidone...might as well use ALL formula and forego
the drug!" (or at least forego the drug and just give what they can in
terms of milk, without any help from the drug).  I don't agree with it,
because I know that some human milk is still better than none at
all...and more is better than less...but I can understand that line of
thinking in someone who doesn't understand this.

However, if you have someone who is close to exclusively nursing, but
needs a bit of a push to get going, i.e. domperidone...and say you live
somewhere where it will cost you as much as formula to get that
domperidone.  What is the big difference between spending that amount of
dollars (or other money) on formula or domperidone, from the father's
point of view?  Money is money!

However, from the baby's point of view...it is better to be having the
human milk...and one might want to point out to the father that the cost
of *formula* alone might not be the total cost it costs him to have a
formula-fed infant (if he ends up allergic, or ill more often, or
something).  There's a difference between the 2 (cost of formula vs.
cost of formula-fed infant).  Also, that the cost of "regular" formula
is less than he'll have to pay if he has an allergic infant that needs a
special formula.  So why not stick with domperidone even if it costs as
much as formula, if it's giving that little bit of help that is needed
to keep a mom exclusively nursing, rather than supplementing 1/4 of the
baby's needs with formula, for instance?

Fio
ressource person with Allaitement Québec
Mama to Sandrine Leïlou, 13 months and still nursin' away!

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