More on the breast feeding topic

csme · 11-22-2005, 09:42 AM

What are your thoughts on people who buy breast milk from "breast milk banks", "nurse maids" and other strangers? I thought the whole point of breast feeding was that it came directly from the mother of the infant.

I am appalled that someone would purchase breast milk from a stranger and feed it to their baby! Am I the only one who thinks this is disgusting and unsafe? Think of the diseases, HIV, hepatitis, God knows what else.

What do you think about this issue?

EDITED TO ADD:
OOOPS! This probably should have gone under the debate forum. Move if you wish.

11-22-2005, 11:22 AM

Well, Im sure that they test and screen potential milk donors...so I doubt that the safety is a big issue...

But otherwise, I would feel awfully weird...I'm not even sure how to word it, but it just seems strange.

Midas · 11-22-2005, 04:50 PM

Being a guy, I saw "breast" and had to check out this topic.

In all honesty, I guess if I were a parent, I wouldn't want my child's breast milk to come from some milk bank or nurse maid. Just seems odd and unnatural. Giv'm da boob.

Rice_Cube · 11-22-2005, 05:36 PM

That's really weird. I can't believe there's actually a market for this.

But then again, you have sperm banks...

FussBudget · 11-23-2005, 03:04 AM

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Originally Posted by csme

I am appalled that someone would purchase breast milk from a stranger and feed it to their baby! Am I the only one who thinks this is disgusting and unsafe? Think of the diseases, HIV, hepatitis, God knows what else.

Yep, well, as you pointed out csme, I would wanna be damn sure that it was guaranteed harmless. And I am not quite sure how that would be done.

How do they do it with blood ? Could the same concepts be applied ? Who here is of a scientific enough mind to answer ?

csme · 11-23-2005, 08:04 AM

Scientific mind? Wrong board! LOL!

I guess the closest thing we have to a scientist around here is Rice.

Rice_Cube · 11-23-2005, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by FussBudget

Yep, well, as you pointed out csme, I would wanna be damn sure that it was guaranteed harmless. And I am not quite sure how that would be done.

How do they do it with blood ? Could the same concepts be applied ? Who here is of a scientific enough mind to answer ?

I'm pretty sure that they could do some kind of type-matching and use screens against the most common disease pathogens, but otherwise I don't think there's much difference between screening blood and screening breast milk. I guess they could homogenize and pasteurize it or something like they do with regular cow milk

11-23-2005, 12:43 PM

Can anyone go buy some milk from the Breast Bank? Because then I could make a milkshake that brings all the boys to the yard. Damn right it's better than YOURS. I could teach you but I'd have to charge.

11-23-2005, 06:55 PM

Omg...lmao!

Bobby · 01-23-2006, 07:21 PM

Bizarre. People will be willing to donate anything these days . . .

I thought one of the big things about breast-feeding was the bond it creates between mum and child.