Dear Colleagues:

Michelle says: "I did come across this information from LLLI:
*A Leader shall not ever suggest an informal milk-donation arrangement,
including wet-nursing or cross-nursing.*
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Dr. Ruth Lawrence says the same thing in her 6th edition; that the physican
should never be the agent of arrangement. The responsibilities and
consequences have to be real, so the idea should come from the mother.

I was an informal donor for my friend. She couldn't nurse because she was
being treated for inflammatory breast cancer. She spoke about her plan with
her doctors and asked me to have my blood tested before accepting my milk.
It was easy for me to do. Her baby got one human milk feed a day for a year.
It was her second, planned for baby. Besides being induced at 35 weeks (so
she could start chemotherapy) and fighting for her life, the loss of
breastfeeding was one more dreadful blow to her. She gave some colostrum to
her baby in the NICU before she started treatment; it was all she could do.

Inflammatory breast cancer is vicious; she found the lump when she was 28
weeks pregnant.  When she went to the National Institutes of Health (they
had a experimental protocol), she already had metastasis to her pelvis. They
said that the best they could offer was 3 years; she died 11 days before
that baby's first birthday.

I honor Linda's memory.

warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
from a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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