Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Mothers Share Breast Milk Through Facebook

    A new group called Eats on Feets is using the social network site facebook to connect moms who
can’t breastfeed or have low supply, with mothers who have milk to spare.    
   Eats on Feets  is basically a matchmaking site for moms who need donated milk and those whose cups overfloweth. The network went global earlier this month, and already has active chapters in America,Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan and other countries. Mothers decide for themselves how they want to screen donors, whether through a questionnaire or by requiring a blood test for diseases that can be transmitted through breast milk. There’s a handy-dandy YouTube video from the University of California Berkeley teaching how to flash-pasteurize breast milk at home to kill viruses.

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