Breastfeeding In Childcare Resource

[Unregistered]

Great article:
Top 10 Ways to Stop Caregivers from Overfeeding Your Breastfed Baby

http://sdbfc.com/blog/

[Cat Herder]

Interesting article. The problem is several of these things are illegal (for us operating legally) to do.

1. We cannot reheat or reuse breastmilk.

2. We have a required minimum amount we are to feed infants per "meal".

Check out the National Food Program Guidelines for an eye opener. Maybe if parents started with educating our lawmakers instead of having "heart to hearts" and asking providers to break laws we would all benefit?? :hug:

I support your over-all goal, I just think you are starting too low on the totem pole.

***My state still wants breastmilk stored in a seperate fridge away from food or formula bottles... you know it is a biohazard (body fluid). We are making progress, just very slowly.

[butterfly]

Interesting article. The problem is several of these things are illegal (for us operating legally) to do.

1. We cannot reheat or reuse breastmilk.

2. We have a required minimum amount we are to feed infants per "meal".

Check out the National Food Program Guidelines for an eye opener. Maybe if parents started with educating our lawmakers instead of having "heart to hearts" and asking providers to break laws we would all benefit?? :hug:

I support your over-all goal, I just think you are starting too low on the totem pole.

***My state still wants breastmilk stored in a seperate fridge away from food... you know it is a biohazard (body fluid). We are making progress, just very slowly.

and to the biohazard! It kinda makes sense, but I've never heard of having to have a separate fridge.

[Cat Herder]

and to the biohazard! It kinda makes sense, but I've never heard of having to have a separate fridge.

I remember when we had to wear gloves to handle breastmilk and providers routinely declined to take breastfed infants...

The late 70's, 80's and early 90's were very "anti wet-sticky-not mine"

Have you read the current CDC Guidelines for the Handling and Storage of Human Milk??? or CDC "What to do if an infant or child is mistakenly fed another womans expressed breastmilk?" They use the abreviation HIV 9 times in two short paragraphs. Who wouldn't be a tad bit nervous?

[Blackcat31]

Have you read the current CDC Guidelines for the Handling and Storage of Human Milk??? or CDC "What to do if an infant or child is mistakenly fed another womans expressed breastmilk?" They use the abreviation HIV 9 times in two short paragraphs. Who wouldn't be a tad bit nervous?

http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/recommendations/handling_breastmilk.htm

[Unregistered]

You're much more likely to get something like hepatitis from a dirty diaper than you're going to get HIV from a bottle of breastmilk. Plus, what are you going to do if the baby spits up on you? Going to walk around in a haz-mat suit all day? There have actually been studies that breastmilk might prevent HIV transmission. It's all pretty interesting.

[Unregistered]

Are special precautions needed for handling breast milk?

No special precautions exist for handling expressed human milk, nor does the milk require special labeling. It is not considered a biohazard. The Universal Precautions to prevent the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Hepatitis B virus, and other bloodborne pathogens do not apply to human milk.

http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/disease/hiv.htm

above is from the CDC website so I'm confused about the separate fridge thing.

[craftymissbeth]

Are special precautions needed for handling breast milk?

No special precautions exist for handling expressed human milk, nor does the milk require special labeling. It is not considered a biohazard. The Universal Precautions to prevent the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Hepatitis B virus, and other bloodborne pathogens do not apply to human milk.

http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/disease/hiv.htm

above is from the CDC website so I'm confused about the separate fridge thing.

And yet...

http://www.cdc.gov/breastfeeding/recommendations/other_mothers_milk.htm

[Unregistered]

No, that's different. Of course you have to take those precautions if a child actually ingests the milk. It does say that the risk of transmission is low and no case has ever been documented. I'm talking about the separate fridge and biohazard thing.

[Blackcat31]

No, that's different. Of course you have to take those precautions if a child actually ingests the milk. It does say that the risk of transmission is low and no case has ever been documented. I'm talking about the separate fridge and biohazard thing.

Catherder said it was a state requirement for her as a child care provider....because it was once considered similar to a bio-hazard which requires separate storage.

Her comment about the separate fridge was more in reference to how slow her state is in changing to meet current standards.

[Cat Herder]

No, that's different. Of course you have to take those precautions if a child actually ingests the milk. It does say that the risk of transmission is low and no case has ever been documented. I'm talking about the separate fridge and biohazard thing.

Oh, I agree with you :: I breastfed 3 of my own and only enroll infants, I have not had an infant that was not breastfed in many years. lovethis

The seperate mini-fridge for breastmilk storage is still in our mandatory training

Let me see if I can find the *stolen from paid training* slide.... I know I have shared it here before....

[Unregistered]

not flaming, just honestly interested and curious. Of course the FDA site is down so I can't see anything on there about the food program or anything! @@

[Cat Herder]

not flaming, just honestly interested and curious. Of course the FDA site is down so I can't see anything on there about the food program or anything! @@

**I use a separate freezer/fridge in the playroom so moms can bring it straight from work at pick-up to be placed in the freezer (most keep a week or more in storage here).

Most large centers here (deep south) use a "loophole" to stay within regulation.

Owners removed refrigerators from the classrooms completely. Then they require insulated bags with ice packs daily and that each bottle be pre-filled (with correct amounts for the feeding guidelines), labeled and be kept in each child's own cubbies. (* beyond the legal 6-8 hour "room-temp" limit)

After the last feeding all unused formula must be discarded with bottles returned to bag for disinfecting at home (most are in care 9-10 hours, many up to 12).

[blandino]

Legally, we have to toss a breast milk (or formula bottle) if baby doesn't finish it. Sometimes that can be a decent amount of milk left. That is so precious to moms struggling to produce enough.

I may or may not bend the rules on that one if asked. Breastmilk is good at room temp for far longer than licensing rules dictate.

[Cat Herder]

You're much more likely to get something like hepatitis from a dirty diaper than you're going to get HIV from a bottle of breastmilk. Plus, what are you going to do if the baby spits up on you? Going to walk around in a haz-mat suit all day? There have actually been studies that breastmilk might prevent HIV transmission. It's all pretty interesting.

:::::: I hear you!! Ironically I just had to change shoes because one of the *discount* storage bags had a small tear in the bottom inside corner as I picked it up to dip in the warmer....

Waking kids up with sticky shoes squeeking on my freshly mopped floors worry me more than the miniscule risk of transmission...