Karleen Gribble <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I think that it's a case of managing risks, both of contaminated infant
> formula and infected breast milk. In both instances there are ways of
> lowering the risk and it is generally, but not always, parents who decide
> which risks they are prepared to take and what measures they are prepared to
> take to lower risk.

Exactly.

Every mother who is sexually active is taking a risk every day by
breastfeeding her _own_ infant. Who is to say that her partner hasn't
gotten infected, and infected her, even if they've been tested in the
past?

I don't see the risk of non-commercial known-donor milk any differently.

Of course, now we need the legal structures to recognise that it is the
parent who accepts that informed risk - and policies forbidding health
care worker involvement are not exactly going to help that along.

Lara Hopkins
MBBS, etc.

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