|
|
Article: This isn't your own mommy's breast milk: Parents snub formula, turn to banked milk
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 11, 2006
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 2006 Chicago Sun-Times. (Hide copyright information)
|
Christine Bartels has spent more than $25,000 to feed breast milk
to her baby.
What's free for most moms has come at a high cost for the Palo
Alto, Calif., mother, 44, who wanted her adopted son, Milo, to have
the benefits of breast milk. So she paid the Mothers' Milk Bank in
San Jose $3 an ounce for donated breast milk.
That's nearly $100 a day.
A growing number of parents are going to great lengths to feed
their babies breast milk, buying it from licensed banks, accepting it
from strangers and even purchasing it online.
"I decided this was one of my top priorities. I cut back on fancy
baby toys and fancy baby clothes," said ...