My mom used to donate breastmilk in 1950's Finland, and was paid to do so.
She talks of the donating proudly -- that she was able to sustain not one,
but three baby's lives....  She wasn't paid much, and it was based on how
much milk she would bring in.

Of course, things were & are very different in Finland.  As someone else
said today, breastfeeding seems to be a "frill" in N. America now.  Just
thought I would put mom's experience out there.

-Saara Harvie
Flin Flon, MB, Canada

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Date:    Mon, 14 Jan 2002 16:28:02 -0800
From:    Chris Hafner-Eaton <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: paying for donors

I've often wonder what paying milk donors would do to the system we have
right now?   How do others feel about this and at what level should/would it
be?  I'm not saying how I feel one way or another....just asking and trying
to think of ways to overcome the "shortage of the precious commodity" as
Barbara so aptly put it.
--
Warmest Regards,
Chris Hafner-Eaton, PhD, MPH, CHES, IBCLC
 Natural Health Education & Self Help, Lactation Consulting, & Public Health
Adocate
  [log in to unmask]         http://www.proaxis.com/~drmom/

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