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<b><font color="ff0000">Adventist Medical Center Opens First Human Milk Donor Depot in Portland, Ore.</font></b> <BR> <BR><blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>PORTLAND, Ore. - (Business Wire) Today, in conjunction with World Breastfeeding Week (Aug. 1-7), Adventist Medical Center opened the first human milk donor depot for Portland, Ore. The depot, which is only the second in the Pacific Northwest, encourages and collects human milk donations for medically fragile infants and children. Additionally, Northwest Mothers Milk Bank (NWMMB), has secured approval from the Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA) to develop the first human milk bank in the northwestern United States. <BR> <BR>Read more... <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/adventist-medical-center-opens-first%2C913464.shtml" target=_top>http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/adventist- medical-center-opens-first,913464.shtml</a> <BR><!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>I wonder how they screen for various less than desirable substances in the human milk. Another question: Is there money for the donater? And, are there women who keep their milk flowing by daily donations? <BR> <BR>(Message edited by Don on August 04, 2009)
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I've heard in the past that human milk is extremely expensive, as it should be, unless the donor is willing to give it freely. Yes, as long as one continues to give milk, or nurse, there will be sufficient milk. Today, pediatricians are recommending nothing but breast milk for the first 6 months--then begin gradually offering other foods. All physicians agree that nothing beats human milk for babies--common sense1
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Question, if a mother is a druggie or consuming other things passed in mother's milk wouldn't that be passed also through the bank. My wife working in a NICU and talks of withdrawal babies all the time and their irritability, wonder what else one would have to potentially confront, nicotine withdrawal, drugs, potential infections....????
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Notice this response and the response by NICU nurse after it: <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.babycenter.com/404_what-infections-can-be-passed-through-breast-milk_8840.bc" target=_top>http://www.babycenter.com/404_what-infections-can- be-passed-through-breast-milk_8840.bc</a>
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Bob, just as one's blood must be carefully tested before he is allowed to donate, a milk donor's blood also must pass strict regulatory testing. <BR> <BR>Not to worry, unless you are planning on drinking it yourself!
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Or give it to one of your grandkids, eh??
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well, there have been grandmothers who carried a baby for a daughter, so why not.
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