If you are having trouble breastfeeding or are interested
in donor breast milk, speak with a lactation consultant, your pediatrician or healthcare provider.
Your baby can get the nutrition she needs
from donor breast milk, infant formula, or a special infant formula.
You can mix any variety of feeding, such as breastfeeding your baby and supplementing with formula or using a mixture
of donor breast milk and formula or pumped milk and formula.
Health insurance companies need to reimburse doctors for the time they spend attending to breast - feeding issues, to cover galactogogues, and to cover
donor breast milk for women with lactation failure.
In an interview with Romper, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) Leigh Anne O'Connor says she usually recommends supplementing
with donor breast milk because it has the variety of taste that naturally occurs in human milk.
Items that were included in the 2018 - 2019 New York state budget includes ensuring health insurance
covers donor breast milk.
Since the summer, Northwestern Memorial Hospital's NICU also has
provided donor breast milk for preemies whose mothers can't or won't produce milk, according to Lindsey Fox, a hospital spokeswoman.
«As more and more neonatal intensive care units
offer donor breast milk to patients, a donor milk bank in the Chicago area would be a great benefit for the community and for the patients and families we serve,» said George.
«We have seen the rates of NEC decline from 8 - 10 percent to less than one percent since 2009, when we began requiring
pasteurized donor breast milk when mothers» own milk is not available for our infants,» says Nancy Hurst, PhD, RN, IBCLC, and director of Women's Support Services at Texas Children's Hospital.
Currently there are two types of
donor breast milk available to moms in the US, but only one type that is supported and recommended by major medical bodies like the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)(1, 2) and by the Fed is Best Foundation.
But there are parents in Texas who would
prefer donor breast milk to other options, and in this case there were people like Palmer there to deliver a supply for them.
NICE Donor breast milk banks (2010): This guidance sets out how to screen and support women who donate breast milk, and how to handle and process the milk donated.
In the state of New York we are always looking to empower women and children, and the best way to empower new families is to make sure they breastfeed and so I am one the proud sponsors of legislation that empowers breastfeeding and
empowers donor breast milk.
If a mom is not able to provide enough breast milk to sustain her preemie, parents often
purchase donor breast milk until the mom can pump enough or the baby is better able to breastfeed.
I personally know of a Mum who has
sourced donor breast milk for her daughter who has Down syndrome for over a year in her local area!
A bill that passed the state Senate and Assembly this year would have secured Medicaid dollars for mothers who can't nurse their premature infants and choose to feed their
babies donor breast milk; the legislation argues it will save New York taxpayers the money Medicaid currently spends on the complications that arise during neonatal care.
The New York State budget now allows low - income mothers to
get donor breast milk for premature babies through Medicaid.
When your preemie is in the NICU, it is very likely that you'll be asked to consider
using donor breast milk, in one form or another.
The use
of donor breast milk isn't without controversy, specifically when a mother uses online services or peer - to - peer milk sharing to obtain donor milk instead of utilizing a milk bank that screens and pasteurizes all donated milk.
Kati's mum lives in Finland and her in - laws live in the country several hours away so Kati's mums» group, the Southern Natural Parenting Group, stepped in with meals for Kati and Tim and
donor breast milk for Laney and a nanny was organized through the government «In Home Care» scheme.
Donor breast milk have been widely used increasingly by intensive care units (neonatal).
In terms of safety,
donor breast milk is tried and proven to be very safe.
Vincenzina Schifano, a registered nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, prepares to warm up
donor breast milk to be used by Juan Ignacio Sandoval, right.
She has used
both donor breast milk and formula.
Donor Breast Milk Use in the NICU.
Local nonprofit Guiding Stars Missouri wrote that a contact in Texas told them there were mothers there looking for
donor breast milk.
(1) Boyd C.A., Quigley M.A., Brocklehurst P (2007)
Donor breast milk versus infant formula for preterm infants: systematic review and meta - analysis.
Macronutrient analysis of a nationwide sample of
donor breast milk.
Premature infants are the most frequent recipients of
donor breast milk.
By day three, I was supplementing with
donor breast milk that I received from a kind stranger, but it wasn't really enough for my baby's growing appetite, so she cried... a lot.