Because Every Baby Deserves a Miracle
"Donor milk meant the difference between life and death for my baby. Lacey would not have made it without it." ~Milk Bank Recipient Mother
The Mothers’ Milk Bank screens, collects, processes and dispenses donated human milk as a community service, providing human milk to babies whose own mothers cannot supply the milk to meet their baby’s needs.
Human milk is a miracle. It is one that can and should be shared. The components of donated milk are unmatched by any commercial formula: immune properties, growth factors, hormones, enzymes and many other factors that optimize the health of infants are present.
In The News
The Mothers' Milk Bank (MMB) is proud to announce the reciept of a grant in the amount of $20,000 from RLC Foundation, a donor-advised fund of Rose Community Foundation. The grant will be used to aid in the purchase of a computer based tracking system to track and maintain donor and recepient information. On behalf of all the donors and recipients the MMB and the Rocky Mountain Children's Foundation profoundly thanks RLC Foundation and Rose Community Foundation for this gift.
Safety of Donated Mothers' Milk
Compliance
The Mothers' Milk Bank adheres to the strict guidelines published by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America ("Guidelines for the Establishment and Operation of a Donor Human Milk Bank," reviewed annually) and written with the input of reperesentatives from the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and American Academy of Pediatrics. In addition, the Mothers' Milk Bank complies with the United States Public Health Service "Guidelines for Prevention of Transmission of HIV Through Transplantation of Human Tissue and Organs."
Milk Screening
All milk is pasteurized at a minimum of 62.5 degrees C for 30 minutes. Both CMV and HIV viruses are killed by this process, while preserving the unique immune properties. Additional information is available upon request.
A post-pasteurization bacterial culture is performed and must comply with our standards of no growth.
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