Eats on Feets is not responsible for the outcome of donor/recipient arrangements.
Potential risks of social networking can be avoided by following safe social networking guidelines.1 Part of safe networking includes keeping your exact location and information that could disclose your location (such as digitally uploaded photos), private.
Successful milksharing relationships between donors and recipients are based on mutual understanding, transparency, informed choice, and respect. This process is best done by starting with corresponding via private messages or private email before meeting in person.
Please beware of scams. The two main scams are shipping scams (people asking someone to pay to ship milk that does not exist) and flipping milk (requesting in one group and selling in another).
If for any reason, someone does not feel comfortable pursuing or continuing a donor/recipient relationship, they are always free to withdraw from it, regardless of the situation. Trust your intuition!
Please notify the local chapter page or email us about any wrongdoing in your community. If undesired contact keeps occurring, please know that FB has a blocking feature.2
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Some adults might request milk for non-medical reasons (weightlifting, fetishism).3 Eats on Feets administrators will delete these types of requests.
For the full informed choice process and self-determination of all families practicing private arrangement milksharing, for the safety of babies, and for network transparency, we only accept offers and requests from legally or medically responsible parties.4
If you are not a legal or medical representative, please email us with proper contact information so we can create a post for the original donor or intended recipient.
Next: Breastmilk in a state of emergency
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- Get Safe Online ↩︎
- Help Center – Unfriending or Blocking Someone ↩︎
- Claire Levenson. Archived. Mothers selling breastmilk … to men ↩︎
- Legal and medical representatives are a parent(s) of the child, someone with custody, legal guardianship, or power of attorney, a foster parent, donors donating their own milk, midwives, and anyone legally allowed to prescribe medication, including the nurse practitioner. Siblings, children, grandparents, friends, aunts, sister-/brother-in-law, etcetera, are not legally nor clinically responsible parties. IBCLCs, nurses, and doulas are also not clinically responsible parties and they cannot request milk for their clients. ↩︎
