I have wondered for a long time *not a debate*

[Laranna]

I understand that all BM donated would be screened but what if they make mistakes or become slack and something is passed on our babies, i'm not saying that would happen but i atleast know formula is fine and that it doesn't stop a child from being smarter than those who are BF.

As an example we were out at dinner last night and there was another young couple with their 5 month old girl, they started chatting to us, they thought Miss K was a newborn as shes so little. Anyways the mother asked me questions, she asked if i BF or FF and i said FF to which she said fair enough. Then her little girl was being a bit cranky because she kept taking her dummy out and then the mother said in a bragging kind of tone that her bub had just learnt to take her dummy out and put it back in and thats when DP said that Miss K has been able to do that for a few weeks now.

I'm not saying my bub is the smartest in the world but she learnt something well before this other bub and the difference is mine is FF where the other is BF. I know BM has it benefits over FF but formula really is not that bad.

And im not taking a stab at anyone i know this is a friendly conversation so if my post comes across as snooty its not my intention

Donated breastmilk can be screened and is open to the possibility of contamination but so is formula. Formula is man made in a factory and therefore also has risks of being contaminated if someone makes an error.

Dedicated_mummy, I get what you're saying. I would use donor milk. In fact, I used my sisters milk when I was having supply troubles with DS.

[onthefly]

I think there are two main problems
1- supply. It can be hard to get a reasonable amount - you'd need to be producing a fair bit to commercialise it.
2 - ethical issues involvd with selling human tissues (or whatever)

On top of that of course is the fact that most people would rather drink something from an animal or tin than from another human.

[STARRYSKY]

KM- like Eluned said, formula being man made has many possible contaminations, there was recently formula pulled from shelves due to mould spores being present in tins, also PLASTIC\, yes, you read that right, MELAMINE in the actual formula!!! if you google it, you will probably find, many, many, many incidences of contamination in formula over the last 30 years.

[*LittleMissSummer*]

KM- like Eluned said, formula being man made has many possible contaminations, there was recently formula pulled from shelves due to mould spores being present in tins, also PLASTIC\, yes, you read that right, MELAMINE in the actual formula!!! if you google it, you will probably find, many, many, many incidences of contamination in formula over the last 30 years.

Thank you for that information. But i won't google it. I don't want to upset myself when there is nothing i can do to change the way i feed my baby.