My name is Kristin and I am a UND nursing student. I have been researching
human milk banks and how they benefit infants, mothers and families in
need of this resource.
Wilson-Clay, Barbara (2006) discusses the benefits of milk banking.
According to this study, it is far more beneficial than the preterm infant
formula otherwise used. Decreasing risk of necrotizing enterocolitis,
chronic lung disease and hospital time.
In contrast, Schanler, R. J., Lau, C., Hurst, N. M., and O'Brian (2005),
conducted a study that compared mothers milk, donated milk and preterm
formula. It concluded that the donor milk group received more milk volume
and more nutritional supplements than the formula group, but gained weight
more slowly. It concluded that donated milk had little advantage over
preterm formula fed milk.
In the McGuire. and Anthony M. Y., (2003) study, donor milk was compared
to formula. It was found that babies fed donor milk were three times less
likely to develop necrotizing enterocolitis and four times less likely to
have confirmed necrotizing enterocolitis than infants who received formula
milk. This study suggested the need for further larger trials to compare
growth, development and incidence of adverse outcomes.
Questions that I am still wondering about include; the long term effects
for the infants (doner milk vs mothers milk vs formula fed), long term
effects for mothers donating the milk, the need for further trials since
data is conflicting, if lactating women will be paid for milk production,
and if the cost and effort of donor milk is worth the benefits to the
baby.
McGuire. and Anthony M. Y., (2003). Donor human milk versus formula for
preventing necrotising enterocolitis in preterm infants: systematic
review. Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal and Neonatal
Edition.Retrieved from http://fn.bmjjournals.com/cgi/ content/
full/88/1/F11 on October 20th , 2006
Schanler, R. J. MD, Lau, C., PhD, Hurst, N. M., MSN and O'Brian Smith, E.,
PhD.(2005) Randomized trial of donor human milk versus preterm formula as
substitutes for mothers' own milk in the feeding of extremely premature
infants. Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Retrieved
on October 18 from
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org /cgi/content/full/116/2/400
Wilson-Clay, Barbara (2006).The milk of human kindness: the story of the
mothers milk bank at Austin. International Breastfeeding Journal Retrieved
on October 20th, 2006
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