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High-Temperature Pasteurization Used at Donor Breast Milk Banks Reduces Melatonin Levels in Breast Milk

Breastfeeding Medicine, 2023
Background and Objective: Donor human milk banks are used when breast milk directly from mothers is unavailable or insufficient. Breast milk contains melatonin, which exhibits a 24-hour pattern.
L. Booker, K. Lenz, J. Spong, M. Deacon-Crouch, D. Wilson, T. H. Nguyen, T. Skinner   +6 more
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Got (Optimal) Milk? Pooling Donations in Human Milk Banks with Machine Learning and Optimization

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2023
Problem definition: Human donor milk provides critical nutrition for millions of infants who are born preterm each year. Donor milk is collected, processed, and distributed by milk banks.
Timothy C Chan, Rafid Mahmood, Deborah L. O’Connor, D. Stone, S. Unger, Rachel K Wong, Ian Yihang Zhu   +6 more
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Determining Knowledge and Opinions of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nurses on Wet-Nursing and Human Milk Banks: A Cross-Sectional Study in Türkiye

Journal of Human Lactation, 2023
Background: Wet nursing and human milk banks are vital sources of human milk for infants unable to breastfeed. Research Aim: This study aims to determine the knowledge and opinions of neonatal intensive care unit nurses regarding wet-nursing and human ...
D. Konukbay, Emine Kapan, D. Yildiz
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Nutrients and Bioactive Components of Human Milk After One Year of Lactation: Implication for Human Milk Banks

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition - JPGN, 2021
Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text ABSTRACT Objective: Specifying the nutrient content and bioactive compounds in milk from long-term lactation for the purpose of finding additional sources of donors’ milk for human milk banks. Method:
E. Sinkiewicz-Darol, D. Martysiak‐Żurowska, Małgorzata Puta, Iwona Adamczyk, O. Barbarska, A. Wesołowska, Urszula Bernatowicz-Łojko   +6 more
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Human Milk Banking

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 1985
The term "human milk banking" refers to the collection storage and processing of human milk donated by lactating mothers for infants other than their own. Much emphasis has been placed on attainment of intrauterine growth rates for infants of low birthweight somewhat at the expense of the therapeutic effects of human milk and the biological importance
A F, Williams, C, Fisher, V, Greasley, H, Trayler, M W, Woolridge, J D, Baum   +5 more
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Human Milk Banking

Neonatal Network, 2013
Forms of human milk banking and donation have been present for more than a century worldwide, but, since 1985, the Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA) has established guidelines to make the use of donor’s breast milk safe and the second best form of feeding to maternal breast milk for a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) infant ...
Esther Marie, O'Hare, Angela, Wood, Elizabeth, Fiske   +2 more
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An Alternative to Mother’s Own Milk: Maternal Awareness of Donor Human Milk and Milk Banks

Journal of Human Lactation, 2020
Background The use of donor human milk is rising. Maternal awareness of donor human milk use, milk donation, and milk banks has not been well described in the United States. Research Aims To explore maternal experience, knowledge, and attitudes regarding
Lindsay Ellsworth, J. Sturza, K. Stanley
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Development and evaluation of formal guidelines for donor selection for human milk banks

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2020
Donor selection for milk banks is essential to ensure the safety and nutritional quality of the donor milk, and to ensure that the prospective donor and her breastfeeding infant do not come to harm through donating.
V. Clifford, Christine Sulfaro, June Lee, J. Pink, Veronica C. Hoad   +4 more
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Where to get Donor Breast Milk? Self-Reported Parental Motivations and Concerns Regarding the Choice of Informal Milk Sharing versus Milk Banks

Pediatrics, 2020
Introduction: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends exclusive breastfeeding prior to 6 months of age. However, many women are unable to produce enough milk to exclusively breastfeed their child and, thus, supplement infant diets with ...
Anna Kuznetsova, N. Sood, D. Heffern, R. Milanaik   +3 more
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Talking the Talk but not Walking the Walk: Donating to Human Milk Banks in South Africa

Journal of Human Lactation, 2020
Background The human milk donor pool in South Africa is severely limited due to the low rate of continued breastfeeding and the HIV pandemic. It was crucial to determine why willing donors did not donate to determine if infrastructure could be ...
C. Biggs
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