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Cybergal · **^ Top** #1 11.05.2007

Iowa Woman Tries to Sell Her Breast Milk for $200

11/4/07

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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A woman who doesn't want her breast milk to go to waste has taken out a newspaper ad in hopes of selling it.

Martha Heller, 22, took out an ad in The Gazette newspaper offering 100 ounces of her breast milk for $200 or the best offer.
Heller said her freezer is overflowing with breast milk she has pumped since August. Her 4-month-old daughter won't drink from a bottle and the supply is piling up.
Heller now donates to the University of Iowa's Mother's Milk Bank, but the 100 ounces of milk she wants to sell were pumped before she went through the screening process for the bank and cannot be donated.
Linda Klein, a lactation consultant at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids, said breast milk can generally be stored in a freezer for up to six months.
Heller said she researched laws regarding the sale of breast milk and couldn't find any in Iowa.
Don McCormick, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Public Health, said he was not aware of any laws in Iowa restricting the sale of breast milk, but that state health officials advised against it.

Heller said she hasn't received any legitimate calls about her ad.
"There was one prank caller," she said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,308003,00.html

GuysLady · **^ Top** #2 11.05.2007

Goodness I know that feeling! When William was nursing, I felt like a **** dairy cow! And since he wouldn't drink from a bottle until he was almost 11 months old... I had a HUGE stockpile in the freezer!! Can anyone say MOOOOOO?????

bucksandducks · **^ Top** #3 11.05.2007

My favorite drink: Breast milk and Kaluha.

luvinmytrucker · **^ Top** #4 11.06.2007

I wouldn't buy it like that...you don't know if the woman is a smoker (yes there are women who smoke while nursing though it's RARE) or drinks etc. The whole point of nursing is knowing exactly what your child is getting and that (IMHO) would defeat the purpose!

BUT I can see charging $200 for it. It can be so hard to pump just a few ounces, much less 100 ounces LOL

leannamarie · **^ Top** #5 11.06.2007

She was approved to donate her milk to the milk bank, but she can't donate the milk she pumped in the days before she was screened and approved. So I would feel a little better that her milk would be okay.

shandera · **^ Top** #6 11.11.2007

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Originally Posted by GuysLady

Goodness I know that feeling! When William was nursing, I felt like a **** dairy cow! And since he wouldn't drink from a bottle until he was almost 11 months old... I had a HUGE stockpile in the freezer!! Can anyone say MOOOOOO?????

R O F L............Yer too funny! ! ! !

GuysLady · **^ Top** #7 11.11.2007

Just the truth Shandera! That kid nursed so much I did feel like a cow!

lookingup · **^ Top** #8 11.11.2007

Can I buy this milk and shove it down Hillary's throat

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