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The case for commercialising breast milk
Debate also intense if women should be paid for giving milk or if they should donate it altruistically
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Sun, Mar 22, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Los Angeles
WHEN Gretty Amaya took an unpaid maternity leave five months ago, she started what she calls a part-time job to help pay the bills. Ms Amaya, who lives in Miami, has made more than US$2,000 so far by pumping breast milk and selling what is left over after feeding her baby daughter.
Frozen milk from Ms Amaya - and from hundreds of other women - is flown here to what resembles a pharmaceutical factory. Inside, it is concentrated into a high-protein product fed to extremely premature babies in neonatal intensive care units, at a cost of thousands of dollars a baby.
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