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Greetings!
Hello! This month's e-newsletter introduces our NEW VIDEO SERIES, shares cute swimsuit photos from our Facebook Friends and reports on our 2nd Mothers' Milk Bank of North Texas Annual Donor Appreciation Day recently at the Fort Worth Zoo.
Thanks for reading, and enjoy our new videos!
Thanks for all that you do,
Amy
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Introducing Mothers' Milk Bank of North Texas Video Series
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We count readers like you among our dearest friends of the Mothers' Milk Bank of North Texas. As a devoted supporter, you know the tangible and immeasurable benefits of breastfeeding. Through your dedication and support, breastfeeding and milk banking together create a ripple effect, helping babies who need it the most.
Yet, for many expectant and new moms, nonprofit milk banking remains a mysterious process. To help change that, we have something exciting to share with you, and we hope you'll share it with others.
For the first time, we are shining a light on the stories and experiences of both donor families and recipient families in our new,four-part video series. By doing this, Mothers' Milk Bank of North Texas aims to raise community awareness and understanding of milk banking, while demonstrating its powerful ripple effect on babies, families and our community.
As more neonatologists prescribe donor human milk, we need more donor moms to give the gift of "liquid gold." In order to meet the estimated demand for donor milk, we want to screen at least 600 more donors this year. Do you know someone who may be a good donor? Share one of these videos with her, and invite her to visit our website for more information.
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Moms Connect
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Our donor moms often meet or connect with one another when they post on our Facebook Page, but we recently gave our current donor moms a way to CONNECT live and in person.
On Saturday, June 7, 58 donor families celebrated with us at our 2nd Mothers' Milk Bank of North Texas Annual Donor Appreciation Day. Held at the Fort Worth Zoo, 152 adults, 54 kids and 67 infants enjoyed visiting the Zoo's 7,000 animals, its petting corral and the Gigantabugs! special exhibit which features more than a dozen colossal crawlies.
As the Zoo celebrates the births and birthdays of their own little jaguar, elephants, monkey and rhino, we celebrated with our own little ones, who together with their families, all donate their excess donor human milk to babies in need of this life-saving nutrition.
"Behind every successful breastfeeding mom, there is a family who supports her," says Simone Summerlin, donor program coordinator for the Milk Bank. "This event celebrates ALL of our donor moms, and the philanthropic, caring acts each of these families make to help the tiniest, most fragile babies who depend on donor human milk."
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