Hi Paula. That's interesting that your daughter was given donated milk. My son was prem and I didn't have any milk to give him to start with and his first three days he was on Nutriprem. There was no mention of donated milk. I suppose that different parts of the country and different hospitals do different things.
On a general note to everyone, wetnursing is nothing new. For one really obvious example, Blackadder II, the character Nursey was Queenie's wetnurse, she talks about which 'breasty dumpling' Queenie used to want first as a baby in one episode. It seems, to the modern psyche, that wetnursing is the ultimate in celebrity selfishness, too posh to push, too lazy to feed or something along those lines. But it used to be the norm and the wetnurse to royalty could rise to great things. I suppose we know far more about communicable diseases than ever before (and come up with a few new ones) and formula milk is good and readily available.
