NO WAY!
The antibodies in human milk are mostly secretory IgA, they help line 
the epithelium - all the linings of the body where germs could get in, 
to prevent germs from even entering.

It sounds like these doctors are afraid of graft versus host disease, 
which can happen in transfusions of blood or transplants of 
immunocompetent tissues, in which the transfused or transplanted tissue 
fights the body it was given to. That doesn't happen from donor human 
milk, because the white blood cells are less active than ones from 
blood. Every mother only shares half her genes with the baby, so half 
the baby's genes are foreign, and if this was a risk, every baby would 
be in trouble.

This is another instance of "sacrificing breastfeeding on the altar of 
ignorance" as Jack likes to say.

Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC  NYC

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