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I had to chime in on this one!
Back in 80's when I had my two babies, I breast fed for 3 1/2 years, with a month off before Nick was born (#2 baby). I ALSO worked as a teacher full time and hand-pumped my own milk. I found that mechanical pumping was too painful to already cracked and bleeding nipples, but I got really good at milking my own breasts. I just brought extra bottles to the school where i taught and when I had my break time and lunch, I took about 15 minutes to fill one or two bottles, kept them in a labeled paper bag in the frig, and took them to the sitters for the next day. The first year of each child, I drove during a lunch break or planning period to hold the baby and nurse in person.
I was the librarian of La Leche League and a breast milk bank has been around since the sixties, I imagine. They used to call them wet nurses before that. The purpose is to feed preemies or other sickly babies first, because breast milk is the easiest to digest and has the natural antibodies babies get from it. I drank lots and lots of water and had more than enough milk. I just was busy teaching full time and nursing full time but our chapter collected our extra milk that we froze and donated. We had four teachers doing that the whole time I taught at that school. We freaked out our fatherless married principal. He would blush and wave us off -- too much information. We wanted a sanitary little room with a lock so we could do what we had to without fear of someone walking in on us. it was provided.
Cee 
posted by
LadyCeeMarie
on February 9, 2008 at 5:47 AM
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seedlings
well I dont have to worry about anyone looking for my milk, but did you check out that website?
posted by
Lanetay
on February 5, 2008 at 8:37 PM
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wow
Wow-- i never had enough to feed my own son, i can't imagine trying to "donate!" that's crazy :)
guess they don't call it liquid gold for nothing huh?
posted by
TheWifey
on February 5, 2008 at 6:56 PM
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Pun
Well I'll be darned. Thank you for the information.
posted by
SEEDLINGS
on February 5, 2008 at 6:53 PM
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Viola! This is a South African owman (white) who started this nonprofit to
promote health and immune system development for orphans and adopted babies in South Africa. A shockingly BRAVE and revolutionary idea. Airplanes are also donating time and flying these "donations" over ASAP.
posted by
ILLUMINATI8
on February 5, 2008 at 5:16 PM
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Seedlings, I think it would be for real
They probably have the website to co-ordinate various local initiatives. (I guess cunning could oversee one - lol). I think there are milk banks to help give kids a good start, say if the mother has a serious illness that could be passed on to the baby, and because baby formula is expensive and less good for babies. Society is surprisingly squeamish about breasts as part of mothers but not in bikinis ;-)
posted by
Azur
on February 5, 2008 at 4:27 PM
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A very unique site!LOL!
posted by
Soul_Builder101
on February 5, 2008 at 3:12 PM
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I don't think so, SEEDLINGS....................
not so far as I could find. That doesn't make sense to me.
posted by
MaggieMae
on February 5, 2008 at 2:28 PM
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nah, that was supposed to be hitting the drums
like after a bad joke, which I'm in the process of perfecting :-)
posted by
CunningLinguist
on February 5, 2008 at 2:27 PM
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Alien
And we could get rid of all the sugar filled formulas too.
I'm just really intrigued with the bumper sticker...and I wonder if it is for real?
posted by
SEEDLINGS
on February 5, 2008 at 2:14 PM
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Cunni
I was wondering 'what' they would collect it in too, I guess drums is appropriate
posted by
SEEDLINGS
on February 5, 2008 at 2:12 PM
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in the past when there wasn't powder milk for infants, surrogate mothers were breast feeding infants whose mothers didn't have milk. If we add little internet to it ( just have to figure out how ), we can close down the powder milk factories
posted by
AlienFemale
on February 5, 2008 at 1:55 PM
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I don't know, that's pretty weird.
Really I'm just interested in the containers. *drums*
posted by
CunningLinguist
on February 5, 2008 at 1:52 PM
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