All I can say is thank goodness it wasn't three bottles of reconstituted formula. Then it probably WOULD have been contaminated and a formula feeding mom wouldn't have had the option of nursing her baby on the plane!

It just proves one the most basic benefits of breastfeeding: for those unexpected emergencies, it's always with you, ready to feed, in a clean container!

-Arlene

>Let's not forget the antibacterial properties in breastmilk.

>Any bacteria or other "creeping crud" in mother's saliva would be sumarily
>killed by the breastmilk. Just as when a baby drinks from a bottle of milk,
>the milk is put back into the refrigerator and an hour later baby's oral
>bacteria are gone.

>Of course, I wouldn't expect the mother in question to know that but I am
>surprised that she was so afraid that of the tiny bit of her own saliva's
>contaminating her breastmilk.

>It is my opinion that we sometimes take the germ theory to the absurd. I am
>not talking about the hospital setting, of course.


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