What about testing each container of milk for bacteria?  The mom who
provided the milk could provide records from her doctor regarding her
HIV-neg status, etc, as well as having her doctor and her baby's doctor
give permission for the milk to be used.  Plus, the milk could be
pasteurized (milk bank heats it to 52? C), and then refrozen.  The
could follow the Human Milk Banking Association guidelines if they need
a protocol.

Breastfeeding the Hospitalized Baby by Cyndi Egbert suggests talking
your way up the chain of command:
*Nurses
*Residents
*Fellows
*Attendings
*Surgeons
*CHAPLAINS!!! (This would be an excellent one to try)
*Administration

In this case she has a chain of command on both sides, and depending on
what kind of facility they are at, she might be able to get the
participation of either or both sides.

Beyond Chaplains, other clergy and clergy who work with hospice may be
helpful.  Doctors and nurses who work with hospice may also be helpful.
  The baby's pediatrician may be able to override the hospital decision.
  Is there another NICU; if so, how about having the pediatrician
transfer the baby to another facility?  The ped could write a
prescription for donor human milk.

The mother could feed her the other donor milk AMA----if there is such
a thing there.  Even if the baby is tube fed.  It might require someone
other than hospital staff being their for the feeding though.

If the mother is allowed to bring her own milk in, she could bring in
the milk she owns (that the other mother(s) donates) to the baby.
Label it carefully.  Again, pasteurizing it there is an option.

Contact sympathetic media.  Contact friends and family members and ask
them to call.  Contact a lawyer, and ask the lawyer to first request
records and then start pressuring them-----this would be the lawyer
doing it, not the family taking the time with this.

Remind them of the formula debacle last year; likely some of the
nurses/doctors saw the results of that horrid affair.

I can't imagine denying a dying woman such a thing as this!



Katie Bredbeck
mother and lactivist

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