Re: DayCare Owner Breastfed SOMEONE ELSE'S BABY
 

That pretty much sums it up! :mad:

Re: DayCare Owner Breastfed SOMEONE ELSE'S BABY
 

Ya damn skippy! :mad: :mad:

I believe this also happened in a hospital. The nurse brought the wrong baby to a mommy. She breastfed her and the mistake wasn't discovered until later that day or the next day.

in the spirit of "there are no dumb questions"
 

Does a wet nurse always have to be someone who just reproduced? Wouldn't she be shorting her own child on its milk supply? Or are there some women out there whose lunch counter is always open, so to speak?

I remember reading about wet nurses in King Arthur books and was just WTF about the whole concept.

I beleive wet nurses were women who had just weaned their children, had given birth to a stillborn, or whose children had died. In order to keep producing breastmilk you have to keep stimulating the breast. It takes a couple of weeks for your supply to totally dry out.

Re: an anecdote
 

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. My grandmother and great aunts talk about how women would breast feed children other than their own back in the day. Crimsontide gave a good example about the slavery days... basically black women who had recently given birth would be expected to breast feed their white charges.... But the point is times have changed and there is more to worry about than there was back in the day.

I know some babies will not take formula and I don't think I would have a problem with one of my sisters or cousins breast feeding my child.

IIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!
And she is still alive?!?!?

Re: Re: DayCare Owner Breastfed SOMEONE ELSE'S BABY
 

How in the hell you not gonna know you're own baby???? See that's why I went to a hospital with romming in. I'm not having none of that.

But just like in the Hand that Rocks the Cradle, if you pump your breast, milk will produce whether you're pregnant or not. You could have NEVER given birth or been pregnant, and still pump and make milk (I was shocked at this actually) The pumping
stimulates the milk ducts to start reproducing. And I heard about thebreastmilk bank. That just seems so weird to me for some reason. But if you think about it, we all drink cow breast milk...

But I will NEVER have somebody else nurse my baby. If I can't then she'll get a bottle, unfortunately. I just can't fathom letting someone else nursing my baby. Its too personal.

Breast Milk Banks
 

I looked into the whole Breast Bank thing and it seems that the idea of donating milk is not that uncommon. Here is a site that I found.

http://www.dietitian.com/milkbank.html

Mothers' Milk Bank
Needs Your Milk


There is a shortage of donated breast milk nationwide and the human milk banks need your donations.

Premature or sick babies and children, whose mothers are not able to produce their own milk, many times due to illness, medication, adoption or foster care need your breast milk. Mothers who are healthy and breast feeding may be able to donate to a milk bank.

Your breast milk can be pumped, frozen and stored at home until picked up or delivered by you to a milk bank. If you want to ship milk to a bank, the containers for shipping and cost of shipping are provided by the milk bank. There are 6 milk banks listed below that belong to the Human Milk Banking Association of North America. A donor milk bank is a service established for the purpose of collecting, screening, processing, and distributing donated human milk to meet specific medical needs of individuals for whom it is prescribed.

If you don't live close to one of these milk banks, please contact your local hospital to find a milk bank in your area. You won't get any money for donating your breast milk, but you will get the warm feeling of helping a newborn or mom with your milk.


Reasons for donating breast milk:

You have enough breast milk for your baby and extra. The amount of breast milk produced is dependent on demand so if you start pumping extra milk to donate, your body will respond by producing more breast milk. You can pump between your baby's feedings and freeze the breast milk to donate. Remember to increase your intake of fluids. Most babies drink about 1 quart of breast milk a day and can empty a breast in about 15 minutes.

You are a healthy woman whose child is less than 1 year of age and you don't drink alcohol, smoke, use over the counter medications or prescriptions, herbal or illegal drugs or vitamin supplements in excess of 100% of the RDA. A few medications are acceptable, including a multi-vitamin, low-dose progestin, birth control pills, insulin, and thyroid replacement. A lot of chemicals pass through breast milk and premies or sick babies have enough to handle.

Your doctor gives you the go ahead to donate your breast milk. You'll need to go through a health screening and blood test at the milk bank like you do at the blood bank, but if you are healthy and able to donate, milk banks need your breast milk. Blood testing may include testing for German measles, syphilis, hepatitis B and C, HIV 1 & 2, and HTLV. All testing is done by the milk bank at no cost to the donor.

You want to lose weight for a good cause. The metabolic rate for a breast feeding woman is about 2300 calories a day compared to 1500 calories a day for a non-pregnant, non-breast feeding woman. Milk banks do not accept breast milk from women who induce lactation to lose weight.

Your baby is premature and you are pumping to keep up your milk supply until your baby comes home from the hospital. If your baby will not need all of the milk you have stored once he or she is fully breast feeding, your excess milk could help save a life.

You are pumping your milk anyway for times that you are away from your baby. You are employed outside your home and pump breast milk at work to feed your baby at day care or later at home. It's hard to judge just how much your baby will drink and you find you have excess breast milk stored. Donate your excess breast milk.
Your milk will be pasteurized by the milk bank so that viruses are killed, but almost all of the passive immunity in breast milk will remain. Please contact your local milk bank listed below or your local hospital to find a milk bank near you.

Re: Re: Re: DayCare Owner Breastfed SOMEONE ELSE'S BABY
 

When it was time for me to nurse, my hospital did not hand my baby to me until they matched our ID numbers. This number was on my ID bracelet, his ID bracelet, his umbiblical stump and my husbands ID bracelet. We all had the same 7 digit number. Plus that first day I had my baby ALL day and studied my boo so that would NEVER happen. I don't see how you don't recognize your own baby either....even after a few hours I knew my Christopher.

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