Australia - breastmilk used to treat girl with tumour

The Sunshine Coast daily is reporting a case of a "gravely ill" 9 year old girl whose prognisis improved when she received human milk. The girl's mother and friend, who is a midwife, rounded up breastmilk from donors and she received 500ml daily for six months. The girl, the mother, and the midwife are not identified in the article.

Rent-a-lactator idea emerges amid China milk scandal | FP Passport

Rent-a-lactator idea emerges amid China milk scandal | FP Passport: "Rent-a-lactator idea emerges amid China milk scandal"

Foreign Policy's bloggers are intrigued by a Chinese entrepreneur's idea to market milk nannies. One woman, reported CNN, is being paid eight times what she would earn in a factory. Why does she have excess milk? She gave her own baby up fr adoption after violating China's one-baby-per-family policy.

I'm back

Hello, I'm back posting news to this website after an 18-month hiatus. I've decided to narrow the focus a bit. When I started this blog it was to help breastfeeding advocates keep up with current breastfeeding news. Things have changed in the Internet world and its pretty easy now to keep up with breastfeeding news. The news feed on the right is completely automated and does a pretty good job.

Instead I will focus in on a few specific areas of interest
- legislation related to breastfeeding
- human milk banks
- controversies

It's good to be back,

-- Jodine

New Alliance Advocates for Maternal/Foetal and Breastfeeding Health and Safety Issues, Particularly With Regards to the Safety of Medications

CNW Group: "New Alliance Advocates for Maternal/Foetal and Breastfeeding Health and Safety Issues, Particularly With Regards to the Safety of Medications

TORONTO, Feb. 12 /CNW Telbec/ - A new Alliance of health professionals,
academia, patients, health care policy experts and industry individuals has
been formed to address issues related to the use of medications during
pregnancy. The Canadian Alliance for Safe and Effective Medications in
Pregnancy and Breastfeeding (CaseMed-Pregnancy) intends to advocate for
maternal/foetal and breastfeeding health and safety issues, particularly with
regards to the safety of medications.
Founding members of CaseMed-Pregnancy are: Anne Tomalin, CanReg Inc.,
Dr. Gideon Koren, Motherisk, Dr. Donald Davis, Society of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), Merc�des Benegbi, Thalidomide Victims
Association of Canada (TVAC) and Carole Boyer, Duchesnay Inc."