he wondered if using bank milk would be even more beneficial in buidling immunity, than milk from mum alone, as it contains the anitbodies from lots of women.
That actually occurred to me too. Did I read it in this thread or another (oh.. probably the immunisation debate thread) that whilst the mum is sick, the baby gets the antibodies to fight it.. and is less likely to catch whatever the mum's got. Soooo.. could it be that our fears of diseases being transmitted through donated milk be are a bit ott? If anything.. they could be receiving the antibodies? I know things like HIV etc are transmittable.. but those ones are screenable.

There's certainly a lot to think about with it.. but I'm sure the 'experts' have weighed all these things up for a very long time before opening the bank.