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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've never heard of a policy like this.  Our center has a fridge in each class, and I sent BM to my son's toddler room without any problems.  (I nursed until he was 18 months.)  After that, I sent a special blended milk which was rice milk and coconut milk-based because he was allergic to cow's milk and soy at the time.  The teachers just poured it into his sippy at meals like the cow's milk they were giving to all of the other kids.  Maybe it was because of his allergies, but they didn't give me any problems with the BM.

There were also some parents that provided their own organic or grass-fed cow's milk for their kids.  So the school was very accommodating about personal preferences.  [b]Unless it's regulation-driven[/b], they should be willing to work with you.

And, honestly, the amount of hate and snark on these forums is getting really old.  Grow up, people.  It's not fun, it's not funny, and it certainly isn't helpful.  [/quote]

But there are different regulations that govern breast milk, a bodily fluid...and that do not govern milk of other varieties. Noone wants a situation where a child drinks another child's breastmilk and gets Hepatitis.  This is far more apt to happen in toddler versus infant where kids are mobile, etc.  Not saying that BM should be banned w/o good reason, but also not sure a daycare is necessarily doing anything wrong by not choosing to have its teachers spend their time on other things, rather than babysitting breastmilk.  By toddler, kids are getting nutrients from their food, except for special circumstances that seemingly could be handled on a case by case basis.[/quote]

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