I know this response is a month after the initial question, but I didn't
want anyone to think that they could not have human donor milk on had at
all times.

Hospitals can and do keep a supply of human donor milk in their pharmacy
freezers for use prn.  It is ordered from a milk bank by the hospital,
usually a pediatrician or neonatolotist,  and used as needed.  You may
call the nearest milk bank to your facility.  Like any other medication
you do have to monitor for expiration date and have a procedure on how
and when to use it.
Darlene Breed, RN, BSN, IBCLC
Worcester, MA (USA)

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:19:41 EDT [log in to unmask] writes:
>In a message dated 4/5/99 10:03:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
><< DONOR
> BREAST MILK is the standard food for a newborn whose mother does not
>have
> enough colostrum/milk to satisfy volume requirements to "fix'" that
>sugar
> level.
>

  My question is only,
>in a
>world in which most hospitals -- even most level 3 nicus -- don't have
>in
>house milk banks, how quickly can a hospital in, say, NY, get donor
>milk for
>a baby that looks hypoglycemic this minute?




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