Baby fed other mom’s breastmilk at daycare

It was my son’s (8 months old) first day in the older baby room. Got a call at 2pm from a panicked director saying my son had been fed 4 oz of breastmilk from another mom.

Okay, how did this happen? Turns out his teacher didn’t read the label on the bottle until AFTER he finished it.

So we pick him up promptly have chat with the director. She keeps going on and on about policies they have and how this wasn’t supposed to happen but it did happen.

Director says the other mom is understanding of the situation. But she’s down just 4 oz of milk, her baby didn’t consume another person’s body liquid. I know breast milk is breast milk but I don’t know this mom. I didn’t consent to my baby being given this milk.

So I called our pediatrician. She says this is the second instance of this happening to a patient of hers in her 25 years of practicing. Unfortunately it needs to be treated like a blood exposure.

Our son is going in to have labs done tomorrow to test for HIV and Hepatitis.

I’m just shaking and reeling. I feel so horrified. Like this teacher didn’t read a label. I know mistakes happen but thank god my son has no allergies or intolerances.

We’ve had issues with this daycare recently (see post history if curious) but this is just bad. I’m now stressed with the idea of finding a new daycare, that I trust. I just don’t know if I can send my baby back there.

Just an overall shitty way to start the week.