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The guides

31 guides on selling, buying and handling human milk. Pick a topic, or search for the thing you actually came for.

A hand labelling a flat milk storage bag with a marker pen, a stack of empty bags beside it
9 guides
Selling your milk
Prices, venues and the whole job, start to finish
One woman handing an insulated cool bag to another on a sunlit doorstep
8 guides
Buying milk
Where it comes from, what it costs, who each route is for
An old desk globe on a sunlit windowsill beside a potted plant, a folded newspaper and reading glasses
3 guides
The law
Legal where you are, what to register, and the grey areas
Two hands closing the lid of an insulated box packed with flat frozen slabs of milk
7 guides
Safety and handling
Clocks, cold chains, screening and what heat can fix
A glass bottle of expressed milk on a sunlit windowsill, the cream risen into a thicker golden band at the top
5 guides
What's in the milk
Compared with formula, with cow's milk, and with the claims
A woman crouched at an open freezer drawer stacked with flat frozen bags of milk, her baby sitting on the kitchen floor beside her
6 guides
Oversupply and pumping
For the milk that isn't going to your baby

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Three doors, one for each kind of reader who lands here.

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Thinking of selling? Start here
The positives, the ease, and the legality – the gentle on-ramp
A smiling mother with her baby on one hip, handing a cool bag over on her doorstep
Where to buy breast milk
Four routes, what each costs, and who each is for
An open freezer drawer of flat frozen bags of milk
How long does breast milk keep?
The clocks in one table, and why the UK and US disagree

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