Trying to sell extra breastmilk - anyone have any experience with this?

Re: Trying to sell extra breastmilk - anyone have any experience with this?

• ashton2190 member

  July 2016

  I would check Facebook. Near me there's a local group for mom's buying/selling breastmilk. Try a search there to see if that's available. Otherwise I would ask local mom's groups to see if anyone wants it or just donate it

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• A&Lmommy member

  July 2016

  I was thinking of donating my extra milk to help preemies but my lil guy isn't allowing me to build a reserve. The minimum they take is 100 oz but you can't take mothers milk supplements and have to remember the dates that you take medication or if your sick. Other than that, its a pretty easy process. If you don't sell, here's the link to check it out. https://www.hmbana.org/

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• jarob747 member

  July 2016 edited July 2016

  That's awesome you are making much!!!

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• Kimbarbour08 member

  July 2016

  Thanks for the tips! I posted on a couple local Facebook groups for donations and already got two replies. Would have been nice to get a little extra cash, but at least it's not going to waste or taking up room in my freezer! I get to help some moms/babies in need and get to make space for the baby food I'm making!

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• VitaLuna member

  July 2016

  Honestly, I think it's a little weird to sell breastmilk. Just doesn't seem right for some reason, but I'm not sure why.. It's hard work! There are tons of mamas out there looking for donations, though. Human Milk for Human Babies and Eats for Feets are both big organizations with local FB pages. You'll probably get many replies, so you can choose who seems like the best fit/"right" baby for you. 

  

   

  

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• Kimbarbour08 member

  July 2016

  VitaLuna said:

  Honestly, I think it's a little weird to sell breastmilk. Just doesn't seem right for some reason, but I'm not sure why.. It's hard work! There are tons of mamas out there looking for donations, though. Human Milk for Human Babies and Eats for Feets are both big organizations with local FB pages. You'll probably get many replies, so you can choose who seems like the best fit/"right" baby for you. 

   I wasn't sure about selling at first, but the more I thought about it, it made sense to me. If hiring a wet nurse was a common practice in the past (and still is in some societies) I think it's not as strange as I once thought. It's buying food for your baby, just it happens to be coming from another mother. But I have decided to just donate, I don't think I live in an area with a large enough population to make selling feasible. I actually did post on both those FB groups, that's how I got a response A mom with a sick 14 month old contacted me and should be coming tonight to pick up my frozen stash! Yay!

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• VitaLuna member

  July 2016

  That's a good point about it being like buying any other food. Too bad you can't make it to Rio! I heard breastmilk ice cream was being sold at the London Olympics since it's such a perfect/digestible nutrition for the body. Not sure how many people really bought some, though..

  

   

  

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• middy411 member

  July 2016 edited July 2016

  Someone told me they felt it was unethical to sell Breastmilk because most of the women in need of it either can't produce [enough] milk or have a medical reason for which they cannot breastfeed (sometimes NICU-related). Think about it, if it were moms who really just didn't feel like breastfeeding, they'd just buy formula. But obviously these moms are desperate to breastfeed/provide Breastmilk to their babies and for whatever reason cannot (I'm sure there are some anomalies out there, as with anything). When this was pointed out to me, I realized why it's frowned upon to sell it. It would be like trying to sell your blood to a person in need instead of just doing a solid for your community and donating at a blood bank or to that person directly.

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