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I wrote a three part series on breast milk sales on eBay over the last few days (On-Line Auctions of Human Breast Milk; Update; eBay Responds).
In the poll many people voiced the opinion that nonprofit milk banks are the only proper and safe way to facilitate exchanges of expressed breast milk. However, the […]
Remember my screenshot of the eBay ad touting a “huge selection” of “breast milk”? I wrote to eBay last Thursday to ask whether it permits the sale of breast milk. On Friday the one open listing for human breast milk was removed from eBay. Later the one completed listing was removed as well. Today I […]
No reply from eBay yet on this post. Breast milk has not been added to the group of prohibited and restricted items but the one open listing for human breast milk has been removed. Even though I did not directly alert eBay to that listing, I feel a slight twinge of guilt about my question […]
While we wait to hear an answer from eBay about whether it permits the sale of human breast milk, let’s do a poll:
[Edited to remove inactive poll. See these poll results here.]
To see all prior poll results, click here.
Tags: breast milk, breastfeeding, donation of breast milk, ethics, lactating, lactation, poll
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Shortly after I wrote about the dangers of casual milk sharing and breast milk sales over the internet, I came across this internet advertisement:
Ever curious, I went to eBay and entered a search for “breast milk.” The search revealed over 100 items for sale, the vast majority of which were breast pumps, breast milk storage […]
If your New Year’s Resolution involved exercise, promoting breastfeeding or being more charitable (or maybe even all three) then I have I got an idea for you! I learned from Tanya at the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog that the International Breast Milk Project (IBMP) is holding a fundraiser on February 10, 2007. You might remember that […]
Cottontimer alerted me to a fascinating article in The Washington Post today, “Banking on Milk: Options Are Growing for Women Who Can’t Breast-feed” by Shannon Henry. Note that Henry interviewed blogger Jennifer Laycock of The Lactivist for the article!
Women may choose to supplement with another woman’s breast milk for many reasons–perhaps they have adopted a […]
There’s an interesting article entitled “Not Your Mother’s Milk” by Viv Groskop in yesterday’s Guardian on current trends in wet-nursing (hiring someone else to nurse your baby) or the more informal “cross-nursing” or “shared feeding” among close family members and friends. Groskop touches on the morality and legality of the practice around the world, […]
These gift ideas run the gamut from free to $35, from practical to just plain fun. There’s something for every budget and every nursing mother, from the mother-to-be to the die-hard lactivist.
Tags: activism, Avent-Isis, book-review, books, breast-pump, breastfeeding, breasts, Canada, cancer, donation of breast milk, holiday-gifts, lactation, Lactivist, nursing-mother, products
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Now this proposition is really win-win, just in time for the holidays. Buy a Lactivist t-shirt in December and the net proceeds benefit a non-profit donor milk bank! Keep in mind that Cafepress.com is running a limited-time free shipping offer for orders totaling $50 or more. A little background….
Jen of “The Lactivist” blog fame used […]
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