I just read this - http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4744651.stm - which says -
"A US firm is looking to commercialise breast milk by selling it to hospitals for the treatment of sick babies. Prolacta Bioscience, a small company just outside Los Angeles, also wants to carry out research to develop breast milk-based therapies. Breast milk, with its minerals, digestive enzymes and antibodies, has long been credited with keeping babies healthy and boosting intelligence. But experts said it would put pressure on mothers to sell their milk."
Any thoughts? Do you really think mother's will be pressured into selling their own milk at the expense of their kids?
Yes
Some folks we do anything for money .
If they will sell there kids im sure a few pints of milk wont make them feel quilty.
I'd have been happy to donate milk. We have a milk bank at our local hospital and the NCT operates a milk round to collect milk from various mums in the area.
It's easy to make more milk than you need for your own baby, so I don't think mothers would feel particularly pressurised if they were happy to go along with all the requirements. I don't see how mum's own baby would suffer at all.
It's a 21-st century wet nurse...
Although it is a bit weird-sounding, let's be honest. ???
lol could take this to the gutter................but I won't, ummmmmm its very tempting lol
:lol: could take this to the gutter................but I won't, ummmmmm its very tempting lol
I'm with you goose, restraint is tough.
lol this is so hard ..............no no no I must not.....I'll have another beer instead rofl
I just read this -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4744651.stm - which says -:
"A US firm is looking to commercialise breast milk by selling it to hospitals for the treatment of sick babies. Prolacta Bioscience, a small company just outside Los Angeles, also wants to carry out research to develop breast milk-based therapies. Breast milk, with its minerals, digestive enzymes and antibodies, has long been credited with keeping babies healthy and boosting intelligence. But experts said it would put pressure on mothers to sell their milk."
Any thoughts? Do you really think mother's will be pressured into selling their own milk at the expense of their kids?
I had been asked to become a breastmilk donor when I had my son, here in the UK. Anything is possible.
When my first son was born premature in the UK, I had so much milk, the hospital made available the local agency that gave me 'daisy' the milk maid (electric pump). I then took my bottles of 'gold top' off to the hospital, and they gave the surplus to otherr babies who's mothers were having difficulties. I never once thought about being paid for it. Like blood, it should be donated.Not comercialised.
Like Ameriscot said, breastmilk is made by the demand for it, you would not be depriving you own child by doing this.