>If a mother who is no longer staying in the hospital with her baby, but
>supplying the baby with expressed milk, brings milk to the unit for her
>baby, does anyone think they can easily tell who the milk came from?
>

Nope. I was always surprised that mothers with dwindling supplies but with a nursing sister or friend didn't ever bring up this idea -- but I certainly wasn't in a position to suggest it -- just sometimes hoped they would figure it out on their own and not tell us. :) (Along with increasing their supplies by "borrowing" a relative's baby that knew how to nurse well!)

Of course, when we emphasize to a mom of a hospitalized baby that breastmilk is like medicine, that it's custom-made for her baby, and that breastfeeding/providing breastmilk is something that "she can do for her baby that no one else can," I suppose that would give a lot of parents the idea that only the *mother's* own milk is appropriate for her baby. After all, health practitioners also teach that you're never supposed to take antibiotics that were prescribed for someone else; parents may think this is the same situation.

For those of you who use donor milk, is it ever something you have to convince the parents of? Are they at first put off by the idea?


Jennifer Herrin, RN, IBCLC
Germany


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