For critically ill infants, the use of safe, pasteurized donor human milk (PDHM) from The Milk Bank is more than a nutritional choice, it is a lifesaving medical intervention. Like a blood bank, The Milk Bank screens, collects, pasteurizes, and analyzes living tissue: human milk! Studies show that the use of only human milk to feed preterm and low birthweight infants reduces mortality by 75% and lowers the occurrence of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a serious and sometimes fatal intestinal complication, by 77%.
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“ Donated milk was not only the best food for my baby, it was a gift to me. The mothers that pumped and provided that milk gave me the gift of time. They gave me the gift of patience. And they gave my child the gift of life.”
- Crystal on receiving donor milk for her baby
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