Medscape

Report: Very-Low-Birthweight Infants Need Human Milk

A comprehensive clinical report in Pediatrics has issued a call to action to promote human milk for vulnerable very-low-birthweight (VLBW) newborns weighing ≤ 1500 g at delivery. But many barriers to ...
Los Angeles Times

MOMS Orange County opens the county’s first breast milk collection site

On Aug. 18, MOMS Orange County partnered with Mothers’ Milk Bank to open the county’s first human milk collection center during National Breastfeeding Awareness Month. “Our first milk drive with ...
Nature

Point-of-care human milk concentration by passive osmosis: comprehensive analysis of fresh human milk samples

Preterm infants need enrichment of human milk (HM) for optimal growth. This study evaluated a novel, point-of-care human milk concentration (HMC) process for water removal from fresh HM samples by ...
STAT

Why researchers think human milk could repair the gut microbiome and reduce infections

For babies who are breastfed, their first source of sustenance is filled with proteins, sugars, hormones, vitamins, and minerals — just the right amount of nutrients for an infant. That milk could ...
Nature

Human milk pH is associated with fortification, postpartum day, and maternal dietary intake in preterm mother-infant dyads

To compare pH of human milk types (mother’s own milk (MOM), pasteurized donor human milk (PDHM), fortified MOM, and fortified PDHM) fed to preterm infants. The aims of this study were threefold: 1) to ...
Orange County Register

Breast milk collection site opens at MOMS Orange County

Orange County is joining the few places in California that have human milk collection sites, where nursing mothers can donate extra milk to help other children. MOMS Orange County, a maternal ...