Tracy Oldfield

I think so, but since our hospital doesn't have a transitional care ward, it works as both, but not well since there isn't room for the mothers to sleep there.  I don't know what criteria they use, but I do know that I wasn't asked because I was sleeping off a sleeping tablet, Heather's birth was short in time but makes a fairly long story, for a natural birth :-)  So they couldn't ask me to express either.  What interested me was that they never asked the mothers expressing for their babies if any excess could be used for other babies.  I know mothers donating milk have to be tested for HIV and other diseases, but surely that doesn't take that long, and it's more appropriate to give milk to babies of around the same gestation and age, if you know what I mean.  A fact-finding mission to China found the mothers expressing milk into enamelware bowls to give to babies who needed it, they were specifically matched for gestational age and age from birth, as close as possible.  Makes sense to me :-)  I must find out where I read that snippet ...
 
Good job I've worked all this out already :-)
 
Tracy
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Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] fyi: milk banks/Re: breastfeeding rants

In a message dated 4/9/00 4:44:24 PM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:

<< my daughter received formula as her first meal.  IMO, if she was poorly
enough to be on SCBU, she was poorly enough to receive donor milk, >>

Tracy,
How do they decide who gets the donor milk?  Do you have to sign a medical
release form first?  That is surprising that they wouldn't give a sick baby
formula if possible.  Is SCBU the same as our NICU (neonatal intensive care
unit)?