The organisations supporting IFE in Haiti do in fact do just that. They 
don't pay wet nurses but wet nurses will often get additional rations or 
access to resources to assist them. Nina Berry (was doing this in Myanmar). 
As I mentioned before, the orgs doing infant feeding interventions in Haiti 
are: UNICEF, Save the Children, Action Against Hunger and World Vision.
Karleen Gribble
Australia

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From: "Ruth Piatak" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 3:11 AM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [LACTNET] Haiti: Reservist Gives Breastmilk to Babies

> Hear, Hear, Jodine!
>
> I love the idea of breastmilk for servicewomen's babies.  I wonder if the
> savings of not needing to screen and culture the mother's own milk would
> make up for the higher cost of transport from the site of deployment.
>
> That is a GREAT idea to pay lactating mothers (especially bereaved 
> mothers,
> to allude to another recent post!) to nurse orphaned babies.  We have the
> resources (money, or better yet, food and water for them and their 
> children)
> they need, and they have the resource (fresh milk with the appropriate
> antibodies) that the humanitarian mission needs.
>
> Ruth Piatak
> La Leche League of Pearland, Texas
> 

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