What does it mean, that the NICU 'will not allow' something? It's just
hospital policy, not law.
If parents can choose to use manufactured substitutes for human milk, why
can't they choose to use donor milk from anyone they themselves have
approved?
Ingrid
Ingrid Tilstra
La Leche League Canada Leader
International Board Certified Lactation Consultant
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Subject: Mature milk and preemies
Pam,
Donor milk from milk banks is mostly mature milk. We take milk from
babies up to one year of age.
Preemie milk is processed separately from mature milk, and dispensed to
NICUs for their smallest babies. However, most of the milk donated to milk
banks is mature milk. For preemie babies, donor milk (and
formula) is fortified with a balance of components that preemies need, but
the milk is most often mature milk. We just don't have enough preemie moms
with more milk than their own babies need, and when we do, the milk is only
considered "preemie" milk for about 4 weeks after the birth, no matter how
early the baby arrives.
So, in short donor milk used in NICUs is mature milk, the issue is whether
the NICU will allow milk from your daughter who has not been screened and
the milk is unpasteurized. Hospitals in our area (New
England) do not allow milk from other moms, my impression is that that is
pretty standard in most places in the US, but there may be individual places
that allow it.
Hope this helps clarify. Hope your daughter in law can hold onto these
babies a bit longer.
Naomi
>
> My question is: Can the preemie twins safely take donor milk from
> my daughter who is nursing a 6 month old and willing to donate. In
> other words, is mature milk safe at all for preemies? And will the
> NICU even allow it?
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Mothers' Milk Bank of New England
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