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Revealed: The Black Market in Breastmilk
Wet nursing is back in fashion - only problem is, there's not enough "officially" banked milk to go around. Desperate mothers are being forced to advertise for private breast milk donors, which opens up the (admittedly small) risk of disease transmission through unscreeened milk. As reported in the Daily Telegraph, Mothers Milk Bank founde...
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WATCH: Man Drinks Daughter’s Breast Milk To Cure Cancer
Tim Browne puts a little something extra in his corn flakes every morning, and he’s hoping it will save his life. Browne’s colon cancer spread to his liver and lymph nodes. His future looked grim. Then his daughter, Georgia, came up with a radical suggestion: drink her breast milk. She came up with the idea after seeing a TV show about the bene...
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Preserve That Liquid Gold: Best Breastmilk Storage System
If you’re a breastfeeding mum you know the importance of have a pumped stock in the fridge or freezer, especially if you have to return to work. But if it’s stored the traditional way, that milk is often exposed to air in its container. This can deplete nutrients and effect taste. Here’s a simple and inexpensive solution. <--more-->...
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Motherless Baby Breastfed By Six Women Each Day
A baby without a mom. A bunch of moms still breastfeeding their own babies. It was just meant to be. You don't hear about death during childbirth much anymore, (and thank goodness for that), but when Susan Goodrich lost her life shortly after giving birth to her son, one of her most important wishes for her child was fulfilled by a band of impro...
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Australia’s First Human Milk Bank a Phenomenal Success
Australia’s first human milk bank, in Western Australia, has proved such a success that other countries are lining up to set up their own banks. Since the Perron Rotary Express Milk Bank opened at King Edward Memorial Hospital in August 2006, 830 litres of donated breast milk have supplied more than 470 premature babies with infection-fighting...
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They Say: Breastmilk Fights Respiratory Viruses Better In Girls
Science gets particularly exciting when it turns up things no one was expecting. Researcher Fernando Polack, working in Buenos Aires investigating how much protection breastmilk provides for very-low-birthweight babies against the wicked metapneumovirus (no vaccine yet developed), was surprised to find stark gender differences in his results: Gi...
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Babble Wrap: A Breast Milk Agent May Thwart HIV
A Breast Milk Agent May Thwart HIV A cheap natural compound widely used in foods and cosmetics and contained in healthy human breast milk has opened the door to a new wayto prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. The Australian Jade Goody's Visitors Scaled Back Terminally ill Jade Goody's visitors have been scaled back as she remains 'sedated and slee...
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Choosing a Wet Nurse, 17th Century-Style
Via Alpha Mummy comes this fascinating yet unintentionally hilarious guide to hiring a wetnurse to suckle one's child, from an English childbirth book dated back to 1612. To start, there are six elements that must be considered when choosing your wetnurse: "Her birth and Parentage: her person: her behavior: her mind: her milke: and her child."...
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Farmers Raise Goats To Produce Human Breastmilk
Udder is best? Doesn't have quite the same ring as "breast is best" but if Russian scientists have their way, they'll basically mean the same thing. Researchers in Russia and Belarus are working on genetically engineering goats so that they'll produce milk that is identical to that produced by lactating humans. Sure, but how will it taste cru...
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