More Hospitals Are Accepting Breast Milk Donations For Babies Who Aren't...
One Massachusetts nonprofit is helping hospitalized babies reap the benefits of consuming breast milk. And its services are in high demand. Mothers Milk Bank Northeast (MMBNE) screens and pasteurizes...
View ArticleWisconsin Woman Makes 29-Gallon Breast Milk Donation
Twenty-nine gallons of breast milk is a lot of time to spend on the pump. But for Amy Bormann of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, it was well worth it to help babies in need. The mom of two told ABC News she...
View ArticleCHKD breast milk bank now accepting donor applications
Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters in Norfolk received approval last year to start a breast milk bank for babies in its neonatal intensive care unit, NICU. It started taking applications from...
View ArticleUps the ante in breastfeeding
BREASTFEEDING one's baby is a given expectation. But sharing one's breastmilk to help save a newborn or support the mother who has just given birth has not been the practice albeit noble. A handful of...
View ArticleThrough Indiana Mothers' Milk Bank, mothers share the love
The first time Debbie Pedersen heard about donated breast milk, she had just given birth to her first child, born with a cleft palate. The doctors in the neonatal intensive care unit recommended donor...
View ArticleThrough Indiana Mother's Milk Bank, mothers share the love
The first time Debbie Pedersen heard about donated breast milk, she had just given birth to her first child, born with a cleft palate. The doctors in the neonatal intensive care unit recommended donor...
View ArticleMiami Mother Helps Open Florida’s First Nonprofit Milk Depot
The Gathering Place and Mothers’ Milk Bank of North Texas to Accept Breastmilk Donations from South Florida Mothers and help feed premature, medically fragile infants. Breastfeeding moms who want to...
View ArticleThrough Indiana milk bank, mothers share the love
The first time Debbie Pedersen heard about donated milk, she had just given birth to her first child, born with a cleft palate. The NICU doctors recommended donor milk for her daughter but Pedersen...
View ArticleMother's milk bank: a boon for working mothers in India
New Delhi, April 19: The picture was quite clear. Even the in-laws of 24-year-old Aarti Kataria wanted a proper gap between their grandchildren. But the urge of Aarti's husband for a male child,...
View ArticleNew mom sets up milk benefit
Alison Beshur's eyes well as she recalls the emotional roller coaster she endured a little more than a year ago when her just-born son William was whisked away to the neonatal intensive care unit at...
View ArticleMom sets world record for most donated breast milk
Only one of her four sons actually breastfed and he did so for only a few weeks. But that didnt stop Amelia Boomker from setting the Guinness World Record for breast milk donation. The Illinois...
View ArticleBreast milk you can bank on (UTS - University of Technology, Sydney)
(Source: UTS - University of Technology, Sydney) Sixteen weeks into her third pregnancy, Janet Gowland's waters broke and there was a risk she would miscarry. Fortunately, she didn't and the West...
View ArticleIs another mother's milk OK for baby?
Breast is best ... Natalie Scobie fed her son Max, now 16 months, with donated milk. Photo: Luis Enrique Ascui Max Scobie entered the world weighing a healthy 3.8 kilograms. His mother, Natalie Scobie,...
View ArticlePlans underway for breast milk bank in Pa.
Working as a lactation consultant for the past decade, Denise O'Connor was well aware of the benefits of breast milk — particularly for premature babies in intensive care units. She knew that babies in...
View ArticleBabies benefit from steady growth of breast milk donors as Texas Children's...
Forty-three percent increase in ounces donated by nursing moms in the Houston area HOUSTON, Aug. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The continued growth of nursing moms donating breast milk to its...
View ArticleBreast-milk drop-off at Cy-Fair hospital helps moms
When Laura Verrett's youngest son was born prematurely in March, the 3-pound-13-ounce infant only needed a fraction of the breast milk she was producing. With a freezer-full of pumped milk in storage,...
View ArticleBreast milk-sharing Facebook group serves Ontario mothers
Women across southwestern Ontario are using social media to connect and then share breast milk. The Facebook group Human Milk 4 Human Babies has more than 1,000 Likes on the website. There also are...
View ArticleBreast milk-sharing Facebook group serves Ontario
Women across southwestern Ontario are using social media to connect and then share breast milk. The Facebook group Human Milk 4 Human Babies has more than 1,000 Likes on the website. There also are...
View ArticleStudy raises worries about ordering breast milk online
SEATTLE - When a blood clot in her brain prevented Jesi Paschen from nursing her second daughter, she turned to what she believed was the next best thing: breast milk from another mother. The...
View ArticleFirst breast milk 'depot' opens in South Florida
In an age when breastfeeding is all the rage, more lactating women are turning to the Internet to give away their surplus milk. But despite their altruistic intentions, this blossoming community of...
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