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Who can be a milk bank donor? Any mother who is able to pump breastmilk and is in good health Donors should be Eating & feeling well Not be a smoker or passive smoker Not have had a blood transfusion within the past 4 months Never have received drugs or tissue of human origin […]
UKAMB celebrates the increasing value that mothers everywhere are placing on breastmilk as shown by the increasing breastfeeding rates in the UK and many other countries. This is also reflected in the global support for internet based breastmilk sharing schemes. The desire to help other mothers and their babies by donating breastmilk has been at […]
Who can be a milk bank donor? Any mother who is able to pump breastmilk and is in good health Donors should be Eating & feeling well Not be a smoker or passive smoker Not have had a blood transfusion within the past 4 months Never have received drugs or tissue of human origin […]
Background: The introduction of anonymised donor human milk (DHM) to countries with Muslim populations has been challenged by the Islamic concept of milk kinship. Here the sharing of milk, historically in the form of a wet nurse, creates kinship ties and thus marriage prohibitions between the family of the donor and the recipient. Surveys in […]
UKAMB would like to thank Wendy Jones, MRPharmS, of the Breastfeeding Network for her expert advice in compiling this information. All drugs have the potential to pass into breastmilk in varying amounts, depending on the way the body handles the drug. In general only small quantities reach babies and term, fit and well babies can […]
The National Institute of Care Excellence published a set of guidelines on the operation of a human milk bank in 2010, after all available evidence and practice was reviewed by a working party. To download a full copy of the NICE guidelines for Donor Breastmilk Banks, please follow this link: http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG93/Guidance/pdf/English