Recommendations

"Since its inception, we have regularly used Chester's human milk bank when a mother is unable to supply enough breast milk for her vulnerable premature baby. This was a far more cost effective option than developing our own resource.

This important intervention has proved highly acceptable to parents and has benefited many babies and their families. The bank maintains very high standards in all aspects of its service and they offer ready advice and education to users. We have been made to feel like partners in its development and hope we have helped it to maintain critical mass and develop the service."

Brendon Harrington
Consultant Paediatrician, Wrexham Maelor Hospital

 

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If you would like your baby to receive donated breast milk, please contact us.  All reasonable requests will be given our consideration.  

Research shows:

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Donor breast milk banks, The operation of Donor breast milk bank services

“research has consistently shown that breast milk is the best nourishment for babies and that it is highly beneficial to their health in the short,medium and long term. Women are recommended to breastfeed their baby exclusively for 6 months and continue to breastfeed after 6 monthsas part of a balanced diet... if after discussion with experienced staff, mother is unable to express sufficient milk or does not wish to expressfor a baby unable to feed at the breast, donor milk can be used. Donor breast milk banks provide donor milk for babies, including pre term babies and babies with growth restriction.”

The Bliss Baby Charter Standards
Charter principle 6, Standard 6.3 Alternatives to maternal breast milk

“the unit has access to donor breast milk for those preterm babies who would benefit from it and where a baby does not have access to their own mother’s expressed milk”

Poppy Project (Parents of premature babies project)


“availability of milk from human milk bank isimportant especially for families with twins and more babies,for mothers who are too ill to express or babies undergoing surgery and likely to feed expressed milk”

Here are some of the babies who have received donor breast milk!!

If you would like your baby to receive donated breast milk, please contact us.   All reasonable requests will be given our consideration.