Table 2.

Reasons for wanting to donate (showing number of participants who selected each reason, n = 1149).

	N	%
I liked the idea of helping other families	1038	90.3
I had much more milk than my baby needed	553	48.1
I found expressing milk easy	507	44.1
I read an article/heard a news item about donor milk	429	37.2
I had expressed milk, but my baby didn't need it	400	34.8
I had expressed milk, but my baby wouldn't drink it	255	22.2
My baby was in neonatal care	193	16.8
I had donated milk in the past	163	14.2
Friends/family had donated	124	10.8
My baby received donor milk	111	9.7
A health professional told me about milk donation	98	8.5
My baby died	19	1.7