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[–]bolla_top 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Is there an agency involved in receiving donated breast milk and distributing it like there is for blood? If so, I really hope they don't play along with this. Imagine being an actual new mother depending on donated breast milk and having to wonder if it was really whatever vile excrement came out of the "breast" of some man on hormones.

[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are lots of ways that women donate and share breast milk, some formal and regulated and some informal and unregulated. In the US, the screening of donors is done at the local level - and traditionally, anyone male would be automatically excluded from being a donor for obvious reasons. But given the kind of mollycoddling this sick man is getting from some actual women, who knows what will happen here? Whatever his nipples secrete, it won't be colostrum or anything like breast milk capable of sustaining and immunizing an infant!

https://www.llli.org/breastfeeding-info/milk-donation/

https://www.medela.us/breastfeeding/articles/how-to-safely-donate-receive-donated-breast-milk

https://www.hmbana.org/find-a-milk-bank/overview.html

https://www.fda.gov/science-research/pediatrics/use-donor-human-milk