On Donor Milk...
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 Donor milk in the mainstream media - Liquid Gold: The Booming Market for Human Breast Milk - "In an era when the benefits of breast milk are better understood and more scientifically certain than ever, demand for it has created a niche industry."
Useful references (also available on pqcnc.org):- Benefits of donor human milk for preterm infants: Current Evidence - It's undoubted that optimum nutrition for term infants is breastfeeding, exclusive for the first six months,then followed by a complementary diet and carried on, if possible, for the first year of life or even more.During the last decades several data confirmed the great advantages of fresh mother's milk use also for feeding very low and extremely low birthweight preterm infants. When mother's milk is unavailable or in short supply, pasteurized donor breast milk is widely used in neonatal intensive care units. Pasteurization partially affects nutritional and immunological properties of breast milk, however it is known that pasteurized milk maintains some biological properties and clinical benefits. The substantial benefits of mother's own milk feeding of preterm infants are supported by strong evidence. However, there is increasing evidence also on specific benefits of donor breast milk.
- Donor breast milk versus infant formula for preterm infants:systematic review and meta-analysis - Donor breast milk is associated with a lower risk of NEC and slower growth in the early postnatal period, but the quality of the evidence is limited. Further research is needed to confirm these findings and measure the effect of fortified or supplemented donor breast milk.
- Donor human milk in preterm infant feeding: evidence and recommendations - In preterm infants, feeding with human milk (HM) is a very effective intervention for the prevention of infections and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), and for potentially improved neurocognitive and cardiovascular outcomes in the long term. Hospitals and physicians are advised to recommend HM for preterm and other high-risk infants either by direct breastfeeding and/or using the mother's own expressed milk. Donor HM is the preferred feeding when the mother's own milk is not available in sufficient quantity.
- Formula milk versus donor breast milk for feeding preterm or low birth weight infants - Cochrane Review
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Newest Publication...
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HMBANA has just now released its newest publication called "Best Practice for Pumping, Storing and Handling of Mother's Own Milk in the Hospital and at Home." 2011 edition, 3rd edition. It can be ordered at www.hmbana.org.
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Keith M. Cochran
PQCNC Debrouillard
keith_cochran@unc.edu
919.966.8182
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