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Two samples of human breast milk. The sample on the left is the first milk produced by the mother, while the sample on the right was produced later during the same breast pumping cycle. Breast milk (sometimes spelled as breastmilk) or mother's milk is milk produced by the mammary glands in the breasts of women.
A human milk bank is "a service which collects, screens, processes, and dispenses by prescription human milk donated by nursing mothers who are not biologically related to the recipient infant". [1] As of November 2019, there are 28 milk banks in North America that are members of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA). [ 2 ]
Human milk banks may offer a solution to the mothers that cannot supply their own breast milk to their child, for reasons such as a baby being at risk of getting diseases and infections from a mother with certain diseases, [4] or when a child is hospitalized at birth due to very low birth weight (and thus at risk for conditions such as ...
Using more refined, up-to-date laboratory techniques, Meigs determined that human milk contained approximately 87.1% water, 4.2% fat, 7.4% sugar, 0.1% inorganic matter (salts or ash) and only 1% ...
Human breast milk for grown-up consumption has been taking baby steps into mainstream dairy products since New York chef Daniel Angerer's well-publicized mother's milk cheese in 2008.
Studies have shown that breastfed babies are less likely to suffer from disease or death and less likely to develop obesity and diabetes later in life.
The results showed that 100% of the human colostrum samples had antipoliomyelitic activity whereas only "80 per cent of the milk specimens obtained between 101 and 340 days after delivery" had such activity. He also tested cow's milk (not specified as colostrum) and found that milk samples from 2 of 9 cows contained antipoliomyelitic activity. [31]
The Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA) is a not-for-profit organization that accredits nonprofit milk banks in the United States and Canada, produces the standards and guidelines for donated breast milk in North America, and promotes lactation and breast feeding. [3] [4] [5] The organization was founded in 1985. As of 2022 ...