Dallas-Fort Worth Star Telegram. Good article, includes mention of WHO
recommendation on donated breastmilk as next best thing to breastfeeding and
AAP recommendation for exclusive bm for six months.

> Posted on Sun, Jan. 05, 2003
> The how and why of milk donation
> By Carolyn Poirot
> Star-Telegram Staff Writer
>
>
> Angela Plunkett says she began donating breast milk to the Mothers' Milk Bank
> at Austin because she was producing more than her daughter, Hannah, now 2,
> could consume -- and her freezer was full.
>
> She resumed the time-consuming effort when Emma, now 8 months, was born.
>
> "I had so much milk, I was uncomfortable," Plunkett says. "My first baby was a
> boy, and he would drink as much milk as I made. There was no over-production.
> But Hannah would nurse on one side and be satisfied, so I would pump the other
> side and freeze it for later, thinking production might slow down just when
> she started needing more."
>
> But production remained high, and Plunkett already had a freezer full of milk
> in June 2000 when she saw a poster presentation on milk banking at a La Leche
> League area conference.
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http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/living/4878898.htm

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http://www.bfnews.blogspot.com

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