Learn more about this human milk marketplace — what are the products being sold, and how to do they compare to
traditional human donor milk?
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove recently began offering
pasteurized human donor milk, imported from an Indiana milk bank, for premature and full - term newborns.
Additionally, a Johns Hopkins Children's Center study recently showed that extremely premature babies
fed human donor milk are less likely to develop NEC, than babies fed a standard premature formula (often referred to as preterm infant formula) derived from cow's milk.
When breastfeeding doesn't work, the best alternative is
human donor milk.
When a mother's own breastmilk or
human donor milk is not available, then infant formula is an important third option that can, at times, save lives.