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I’m so worried about this. We are having our second child in a few months. Our first was on special (ie expensive) formula due to an intolerance. There’s a good
by lghh 4y ago
I’m so worried about this. We are having our second child in a few months. Our first was on special (ie expensive) formula due to an intolerance. There’s a good chance our second child will have the same intolerance. The only formula he could eat was the first pulled from the shelf. Breastfeeding isn’t an option for us. No idea how he’s going to eat if this is still going on (probably will be) and he has the intolerance (he probably will). Does he starve? I don’t know.
- bell-cot 4y agoIt's probably difficult (at best) to arrange here & now...but my grandmother (in small town America, close to a century ago) served as wet nurse to a neighbor woman who was unable to feed her baby. I don't know what money or favors changed hand, but grandma was probably a touch higher in social status than the neighbor.
- triyambakam 4y agoMy wife pumped milk for a baby whose teen Mom had run away. The grandmother of the baby paid my wife for it, too.
- lghh 4y agoWhile not impossible, the person we’d buy milk from would also have to abstain from the things he would be intolerant too. No impossible, but it makes it trickier.
- bell-cot 4y agoAlso tricky - asking your donor to be tested for diseases which can be passed via breast milk. Such as AIDS...
- yyyk 4y agoI can't know whether the medical situation allows this, but Human milk banks exist and provide service, e.g.: https://www.hmbana.org/ https://www.hmbana.org/
- h2odragon 4y agoYou can buy a goat in milk for $500 or so.
- DoreenMichele 4y agoGoat milk was the traditional* answer for intolerance to human milk. Infants typically don't do well with cow's milk. Goat and sheep cheeses are viable options for some adults who don't tolerate cheese from cow's milk. * as in "the go to answer before we had commercial baby formula."
- lghh 4y agoGoat milk is probably the plan. I know I was a bit dramatic, my son won’t starve. I can’t support a goat where I live, but I’m close enough to places I can buy goat milk that I can make it work.