Barbara, I want to thank you for your wonderful letter. It is so true. Anyone who is interested should visit a milk bank and see how much work is involved. It is so important to have the wonderful volunteers who not only donate the milk, but come in and help do the work needed to maintain and provide a safe product to those in need. Well done. Darlene Breed, BSN, RN, IBCLC Milk Bank & Breastfeeding Center Worcester, MA (USA) Anyone wanting to know how much it costs >ought to >come visit a bank, take a tour, get a real feel for what is involved, >and >then go home and do the work. Ideally, every city in the country >should >have its own human milk bank, just as they mostly all have their own >blood >banks. > >And we should never, ever lose sight of the most obvious way to insure >that >more babies get human milk: better support for breastfeeding so that >babies >get their own mom's milk for free! > > >Barbara Wilson-Clay, BSEd, IBCLC >Austin Lactation Associates, Austin, Texas >http://www.jump.net/~bwc/lactnews.html ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html