In this groundbreaking shockumentary of a blog post we will
discover that what seems to be a horrible idea, ACTUALLY IS a horrible idea.
The idea you ask? Buying Craigslist milk.
It is widely known that the best food for an infant is
mother’s milk. But what if the mother has had a mastectomy? What if the mother
has a career that doesn’t allow her to use the breast pump or to feed as regularly as she
wants to? Or what if simply the mother cannot produce enough milk to satisfy
the needs of the infant?
The clear answer seems to be to go to craigslist and just
get a random woman’s number, then meet her in the wal-mart parking lot, give
her 5$ and get a Dasani bottle full of breast milk. Yet the problem with this
seems pretty obvious and kind of creepy.
Several milk sharing websites were recently tested. In the test
samples were taken and tested for bacteria. Nearly 74% came back with levels of
contamination high enough to infect a human and cause illness. 64% were
infected with staphylococcus. Some samples were even infected with human fecal
matter.
The most likely cause of the infectious bacteria is poor hygiene
practices, improper care of breast pumping devices, improper storage, and the
use of a dirty container. Since selling human breast milk is not regulated,
there is no way of knowing the condition in which the milk was harvested. There
is no way of knowing if it was stored properly, and most importantly blood
borne pathogens live in breast milk. This includes HIV.
There are better alternatives out there such a milk banks.
These banks pasteurize the milk which kills the bacteria. Others argue it also
kills many of the nutrients.
In some cases the breast milk was shipped in box with no dry
ice, no ice, just in a cardboard box at room temperature. Guess what? That milk
had a lot of bacteria in it.
Aside from that doesn’t buying online breast milk just give
you the hebeejeebees?
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