South Africa My Breast Milk Was Feeding 26 Babies
Khanyi Nzama estimates that, for an hour a day last year, she was breastfeeding 26 babies. Every day, she expressed 260mls of breast milk into a bottle and delivered it to the local Human Milk Bank....
View Article'My Breast Milk Was Feeding 26 Babies'
[Community Media Trust] Khanyi Nzama estimates that, for an hour a day last year, she was breastfeeding 26 babies. Every day, she expressed 260mls of breast milk into a bottle and delivered it to the...
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 ArticleBABIES“R”US® ANNOUNCES NEW SERVICES AND UNIQUE SOLUTIONS TO ASSIST EXPECTANT...
(Source: Toys) Babies"R"Us Stores Nationwide Celebrate Breastfeeding Awareness Month with Official Rollout of Breast Pump Rental Service and Special "Happy Bonding" Events, Reinforcing its Position as...
View ArticleRedi Tlhabi breast-feeds baby during her talk show
Electricity problems at home led to the first time mom bringing her four-month old baby Neo to...
View ArticleBreast Milk Banks
Every year, one million babies die on the day they are born. One million. For many, the gravity of that number can be hard to grasp. To put that figure into more relatable terms, one million miles...
View ArticleI was an 'exclusive pumper' for my son
With our first child breastfeeding was easy, too easy - as she got older she became addicted, to the point that she was demanding a feed every hour, day and night. Although I loved breastfeeding her...
View ArticleMothers' Milk Bank of North Texas Executive Director Responds to News of...
Fort Worth infant health leader Amy Vickers encourages breastfeeding women to consider milk banks. Fort Worth, Texas (PRWEB) October 25, 2013 This week Pediatrics, the Official Journal of the Academy...
View ArticleIndia's growing breast milk banking network
Two months before her due date, Gauri Meena gave birth to a baby boy at her village home in India's desert state of Rajasthan. At 1.2kg (2.6lb), the baby was less than half the average weight of a...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing breast milk
This is not your typical Facebook status: “Offer: Maria from Vaucluse has litres of frozen breast milk. PM her if interested.” The proposition: “Lauren in Matiland has 600mls to donate,” is not a post...
View ArticleFor-profit breast milk? It's her body, and it must be her choice
It turns out breast isn’t just best – it’s worth millions. Women have been informally sharing and selling breast milk for years. (And not just for babies: there’s a market for men who like to drink...
View ArticleBreast Milk Sold Online May Not Be 100 Percent Human Milk
By: Cari Nierenberg, Contributing writer Published: 04/06/2015 08:03 AM EDT on LiveScience Buying breast milk online in order to nourish a baby with important nutrients that are not available from...
View ArticleMore 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 ArticleBrazil Shows How To Slash Infant Mortality Rates: With Breast Milk Banks...
“This is one of the most beautiful things in the world you can do,” says Ligia, a Brazilian breastfeeding mother who regularly donates her milk. “It makes me feel so good to be able to donate my breast...
View ArticleWhy you should think twice about buying breast milk off the Internet
Breast milk often goes by another name: liquid gold. Human milk uniquely provides a baby with the right nutrients and antibodies. Yet the growing pressure to breastfeed, the backlash against formula,...
View ArticleWhy World Breastfeeding Week
Share Twitter Ghana News Share View Comments August 1 to 7 is the World Breastfeeding Week, a week set aide the world over to draw attention to the importance and benefits of breastfeeding. The theme...
View ArticleFDA issues guidelines on using donated or purchased breast milk
The FDA has released the following guidelines and advice for parents considering the use of donated or purchased breast milk: The benefits of breastfeeding are well established, and breastfeeding is...
View ArticleIf 'breast is best,' why are our devices for pumping breast milk the worst?
A breast pump often means the difference between a mom being able to feed her babies breast milk, or not. It’s a tool crucial to many new moms trying to fulfill the “breast is best” mantra, whether...
View ArticleBreast milk at any cost?
An article published Monday in the journal Pediatrics reported that breast milk available for purchase on the Internet has been found to have dangerous bacteria in it — including salmonella. Should...
View ArticleMother's Milk Bank to aid SC's sickest babies (April 30, 2015) (MUSC -...
(Source: MUSC - Medical University of South Carolina) CONTACT: Heather Woolwine (MUSC) 843-792-7669 woolwinh@musc.edu April 30, 2015 NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - The Medical University of South Carolina...
View ArticleHuman milk bank opens
Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 10:23 am Press Release: Human milk bank opens Christchurch’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) has officially opened the first hospital-based pasteurised human milk bank...
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 ArticleEvergreenHealth Announces Milk Drop Donation Program
Partnership with Northwest Mothers Milk Bank provides donor milk to Pacific Northwest infants in need KIRKLAND, Wash., March 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- EvergreenHealth has recently established a...
View ArticleHealth experts say online sale of breast milk is dangerous and must be regulated
The trade of breast milk sold online is flourishing. Photo: Oleg Kozlov The online sales boom in often contaminated breast milk poses serious risks to children's health - as well as that of gym junkies...
View ArticleBabies at risk from breast milk bought over internet
Some new parents are putting their babies at risk of infection buy buying breast milk over the internet as a “dangerous” new online market emerges, experts have said. Internet forums where parents can...
View ArticlePurchased breast milk putting babies at risk
Moms are told again and again that breast milk is best. And when they have difficulty nursing their babies, some accept donations from other lactating mothers or even pay for breast milk. These...
View ArticleBuying breast milk online could be hazardous to your baby’s health
You want your baby to have the advantages of being breastfed but you are unable to provide the milk yourself. What do you do, especially now that it has been shown that buying breast milk online can be...
View ArticleFemale prisoners' babies shouldn't be sentenced to life without breast milk
Last July, as my parents and I sat munching Bugles around a visiting room table with my incarcerated sister in an Illinois state prison, a cry rang out from the table next to us. There, a bawling...
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 ArticleEditorial: Breast milk is still best for babies
THE World Health Organization (WHO) released an update of its 2007 Long-Term Effects of Breastfeeding: A Systematic Review as the start of this month, which just confirms what has long been said, that...
View ArticleBuying breast milk? Beware of bacteria! (Video)
Is human breast milk safe for infants? Physicians and parenting experts often advocate breastfeeding of babies, if mothers are able to do so. But what about human breast milk from other sources? Maybe...
View ArticleBabies"R"Us® Announces New Services And Unique Solutions To Assist Expectant...
WAYNE, N.J., July 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Babies"R"Us®, the nation's leading dedicated baby products retailer, has introduced a comprehensive series of compelling and differentiated services and...
View ArticleChennai makes plans to bank breast milk for babies
Immured in an incubator in a hospital, the infant depends on a stranger for sustenance. Born four months before the due date, he is yet to feel the warmth of his mother who lies in a maternity home...
View ArticleAll about breast milk
MODERN technology has not yet found a way to replicate breast milk in its purest form, and so doctors today still maintain that milk produced by a mother is better than anything else one could ever...
View ArticleFeeding your baby with donated breast milk
There are many reasons why some mothers may be unable to produce their own milk. Mothers who are infected with HIV, cytomegalovirus, and or hepatitis C, won't be able to breastfeed. Stylist diaper bags...
View ArticleBreast milk would benefit at-risk babies
I am saddened and frustrated when reading the Sunday Dispatch article “Alarming losses,” about Ohio's high infant-mortality rate. I was especially disheartened to read the Monday Dispatch article...
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 ArticleWhen Breast Milk Doesn't Come From Breasts
I dreamed about tandem breastfeeding while I was pregnant with my twins. Before they were even born, I bought a tandem nursing pillow, reached out to La Leche League, and read up on how to build a milk...
View ArticleBreast feeding overdose: Morphine in breast milk kills baby, mom gets 20 years
A newborn baby is dead from an overdose of morphine and that morphine was delivered to the baby through breast feeding. The mother of the baby, a 39-year-old former nurse, was sentenced to 20 years in...
View ArticleUN promotes ‘effective’ breastfeeding, aims to cut on breast-milk substitutes
4 August 2014 The United Nations children’s agency today said it is working with governments, the private sector and local communities to make it easier for women to breastfeed their infants, and to...
View ArticleMilk banks offer ways for moms to donate excess milk for premature babies
Photo Courtesy PilmerPR Doctors and healthcare professionals refer to breast milk as liquid gold because of the nutrients and natural benefits it provides to a newborn. But for a premature baby, their...
View ArticleSave the Children Calls for Increased Breastfeeding in First Hour After Birth
I have traveled to both Kenya and Ethiopia over the past year and half, and what I can say as someone who has newly traveled to the continent is that breastfeeding seems to be the norm among...
View ArticleBreast milk-sharing Facebook group serves Ontario moms
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 ArticleSmartphone kit keeps donated breast milk fit to drink
Donated human milk goes to babies whose HIV-positive mothers don't wish to breastfeed – now milk banks can pasteurise it with the help of an app "IT'S great to be able to immediately pasteurise donated...
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