> 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

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