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"Donor milk banking: Improving the future". A survey on the operation of the European donor human milk banks.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundProvision of donor human milk is handled by established human milk banks that implement all required measures to ensure its safety and quality.
Eva Kontopodi, Sertac Arslanoglu, Urszula Bernatowicz-Lojko, Enrico Bertino, Maria Enrica Bettinelli, Rachel Buffin, Tanya Cassidy, Ruurd M van Elburg, Corina Gebauer, Anne Grovslien, Kasper Hettinga, Ioanna Ioannou, Daniel Klotz, Radmila Mileusnić-Milenović, Guido E Moro, Jean-Charles Picaud, Bernd Stahl, Gillian Weaver, Johannes B van Goudoever, Aleksandra Wesolowska   +19 more
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Current and future use of donor human milk in hospitals: data from polish human milk banks [PDF]

International Breastfeeding Journal
Background Donor human milk (DHM) is the recommended alternative when a mother’s own milk is unavailable or insufficient, especially for preterm and ill infants.
Małgorzata Witkowska-Zimny, Melania Majewska, Aleksandra Mołas, Gabriela Olędzka, Aleksandra Wesołowska, representatives of the network of human milk banks in Poland “MILKNET”   +5 more
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Donor human milk: the influence of processing technologies on its nutritional and microbial composition [PDF]

Frontiers in Nutrition
Human milk is regarded as the gold standard nutrition for newborn infants, providing all nutrients required for adequate growth and development from birth to 6 months.
Ruth Conboy-Stephenson, Ruth Conboy-Stephenson, Ruth Conboy-Stephenson, R. Paul Ross, R. Paul Ross, Alan L. Kelly, Catherine Stanton, Catherine Stanton   +7 more
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Analysis of the economic benefits and feasibility of the same-city delivery model for donor human milk (SCDM-DHM) [PDF]

International Breastfeeding Journal
Background When mother’s own milk (MOM) is insufficient, feeding very preterm infants with donor human milk (DHM) reduces the incidence of multiple severe complications and provides greater benefits than infant formula. Donor human milk (DHM) is obtained
Dingding Yin, Yang Yi, Kangmei Huang, Yijun Chen, Huali Zheng, Ping Zhou, Lian Zhang, Zhangbin Yu, Quanfu Zhang, Junhong Cai, Ruirui Xing, Kanghua Zhou   +11 more
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Regulation of Donor Human Milk at European level: a new bridge for successful breastfeeding of sick preterm infants

Journal of Pediatric and Neonatal Individualized Medicine, 2021
At present, in the EU, there is a specific Legislation on Blood, Tissue and Cells (BTC), but there is a lack of regulation on Donor Human Milk and Human Milk Banks.
Enrico Bertino
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Postpartum women’s views on human milk banking in a city in Southeast China: a cross-sectional survey

International Breastfeeding Journal, 2022
Background Donor human milk is the best alternative for preterm infants when their mother’s own milk is insufficient or unavailable. The development of human milk banks in China started late, and in most of these banks, the amount of donor human milk is ...
Haixia Tu, Ping Li, Lianlian Zhu, Xiaozhen Quan, Shuli Fan, Ziyue Wang   +5 more
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Impact of Donor Human Milk in an Urban NICU Population

Children, 2022
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends the use of donor human milk in infants when mother’s own milk is not available. Our objective was to analyze whether the use of donor human milk in preterm, very-low-birth-weight (VLBW,
Ahreen Allana, Kahmun Lo, Myra Batool, Ivan Hand   +3 more
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Sequential interventions to maintain the safety and service provisions of human milk banking in India: keeping up with the call to action in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

International Breastfeeding Journal, 2022
Background WHO recommends donor milk as the next best choice if Mothers’ own milk (MOM) is unavailable. At our milk bank, during the COVID 19 pandemic, we observed a steep decline in the collection of donor milk, while Pasteurised Donor human milk (PDHM)
Maheshwar Bhasin, Sushma Nangia, Gunjana Kumar, Abha Parihar, Srishti Goel   +4 more
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“It’s more than milk, it’s mental health”: a case of online human milk sharing

International Breastfeeding Journal, 2022
Background Milk sharing is not a new concept and occurs today via regulated human milk banks and unregulated online milk sharing groups. Exploring and understanding how, and why, mothers use these peers to peer milk sharing groups, is a vehicle to ...
Amanda J. Wagg, Alexander Hassett, Margie M. Callanan   +2 more
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Using donor human milk to feed vulnerable term infants: a case series in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

International Breastfeeding Journal, 2018
Background Donor human milk is the World Health Organization’s recommendation for infant feeding when the mother’s own breast milk is unavailable. Breast milk has been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality and in low birthweight infants, donor milk ...
Penelope Reimers, Natalie Shenker, Gillian Weaver, Anna Coutsoudis   +3 more
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