Article: This isn't your own mommy's breast milk: Parents snub formula, turn to banked milk

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 ...

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