You can find your nearest
non-profit milk bank through the Human Milk Bank Association of North America.
In the US if a bank has difficulty meeting the demands of one of their client hospitals they are able to refer them to
another non-profit milk bank, but this doesn't happen very often.
She suggested that women with extra milk could help a baby in need by donating their milk to
a non-profit milk bank instead of selling it over the Internet.
Special thanks to the Mother's Milk Bank (a San Jose, California based
non-profit milk bank serving 13 states in the U.S.) for working with Monique and sharing her story with Lactation Matters.
Mid-Atlantic Mothers» Milk Bank is
a non-profit milk bank that is proud to be part of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America, the experts in human milk banking for over 30 years
HMBANA announced that
the non-profit milk banks in the U.S. have reached critically low levels of screened donor human milk for fragile babies in relation to demand.
Increasingly,
our non-profit milk banks have faced competition for donors from for - profit pharmaceutical companies that solicit donor milk and turn it into high - end products.
Keep in mind that other
non-profit milk banks may have different costs to process milk, and that pharmaceutical companies like Prolacta and Neolac (doing business at Medolac) include a profit margin in pricing their products.
Donating breast milk is legal, and there are established,
non-profit milk banks you can contact through the Human Milk Banking Association of America.
Work with Human Milk Banking Association of North America - member
non-profit milk banks to increase access to banked donor milk for fragile infants.
Not exact matches
The Mothers»
Milk Bank at Austin is a non-profit organization whose mission is to accept, pasteurize, and dispense donor human milk by physician prescription, primarily to premature and ill infa
Milk Bank at Austin is a
non-profit organization whose mission is to accept, pasteurize, and dispense donor human
milk by physician prescription, primarily to premature and ill infa
milk by physician prescription, primarily to premature and ill infants.
Some donors confuse the
milk processing charges of
non-profit HMBANA
milk banks with the profit - motive of for - profit pharmaceutical companies.
Many IBCLCs and others who support breastfeeding mothers are confused because some of the for - profit collection sites have names that seem to indicate that they are association with
non-profit banks (e.g.
Milk for Wishes
Milk Bank, Helping Hands
Milk Bank).
HMBANA
milk banks are
non-profit and keep processing costs associated with safety protocols as low as possible.
HMBANA
milk banks are all
non-profit organizations.
Visit the
non-profit Human
Milk Bank Association of North Americ Donation page or the for - profit Prolacta Biosciences Find - a-
Milk-
Bank page.
Non-profit human
milk banks in North America dispensed over 4 million ounces of human
milk in 2015 for infants in need.
HMBANA aims to facilitate the establishment of
non-profit donor
milk banks in North America in areas where they are needed.