Hi Crystal and all,
No, there is not a milk bank in Plano, only a milk depot.
We currently collect milk for the Mother's Milk Bank of Austin,
and eventually will transfer over to the Mother's Milk Bank of North Texas.
We do provide our neonates with donor milk if needed. 
During the Katrina crisis, I took a phone call from the Red Cross asking 
if we had "extra" breastmilk we could send to
an evacuee.  The volunteer was very worried about giving the 4 month old 
formula, because she had
never had any formula.  I had to sadly explain the financial cost of 
pasteurized donor milk, and that this lucky baby would
"probably" handle the formula without incident.  The dad had traveled 
with three small children, and a cooler with a weeks worth
of pumped milk.  His wife had been forced to stay behind as a state 
employee or lose her job.  I admired the father's persistence,
rather than buying formula without question. 
I did wonder how the Red Cross came to think that our hospital had 
breastmilk available????
Lu Bush,  RNC, IBCLC
Plano TX


Stearns, Crystal wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I heard last week that there is a milk bank in Plano, TX.  Is this true and
>if so do you have any contact info?
>
>Thanks
>
>  
>

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