Miami Mother Helps Open Florida’s First Nonprofit Milk Depot
PRWeb | February 14, 2013
The Gathering Place and Mothers’ Milk Bank of North Texas to Accept Breastmilk Donations from South Florida Mothers and help feed premature, medically fragile infants. Breastfeeding moms who want to become donors can be screened at no charge.
(PRWEB) February 14, 2013
A South Florida mother’s quest to get enough donor breastmilk to feed her son has led to a Florida first: a nonprofit human milk depot to collect breastmilk donations from lactating women.
Mothers, babies and maternal and pediatric health specialists will celebrate the grand opening of the first nonprofit human milk depot with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, February 19 at 10 a.m. at The Gathering Place, a pregnancy, childbirth and parenting resource center at 5810 Biscayne Boulevard Miami, FL 33137.
The ribbon-cutting symbolically “opens” the deep freezer unit which will store breastmilk donations from women in South Florida. A milk and cookies toast will follow remarks from Ana Rodriguez, who gives to the milk depot, as well as lactation consultant Mirine Dye, MPH, IBCLC.
Miami is the first Florida city to open a nonprofit milk depot, giving lactating mothers a drop off location for donations of much-needed breastmilk. The depot at The Gathering Place will be serviced by the Mothers’ Milk Bank of North Texas, a nonprofit milk bank that provides donor human milk to hospitals in 10 states. Women who are currently breastfeeding infants under one year old are eligible to be screened at no charge to become human milk (aka breastmilk) donors.
The Mothers’ Milk Bank of North Texas fills prescriptions written by physicians for premature and medically fragile babies who need the life-giving and sustaining nutrition of donor human milk to thrive. There are more than 35,000 babies born each year in Dade County, and although hospitals in the region prescribe donor human milk to NICU babies, a milk collection depot did not exist until now.
Co-owner of The Gathering Place Tamara Taitt decided to open the milk depot after she was approached by Florencia Martinez, a mom who attends classes at The Gathering Place and shared how her son’s severe allergies affected him. “He couldn’t digest anything other than breastmilk,” said Martinez “He would suffer devastating intestinal distress and bleeding, it was terrifying to us.”
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