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Informal milk sharing

Milk Sharing: Formal and Informal By Sharon Knorr, BSMT (ASCP), Breastfeeding USA

2017 Position Statement on Informal Breast Milk Sharing for the Term Healthy Infant from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.

The Four Pillars of Safe Breast Milk Sharing by Shell Walker and Maria Armstrong, from Midwifery Today (2012), 101, 34-37.

Use of Fresh Donor Human Milk Protocol (Appendix 4-C) from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative’s Nutritional Support of the Very Low Birth Weight Infant Quality Improvement Toolkit

Gribble KD, Hausman BL. Milk sharing and formula feeding: Infant feeding risks in comparative perspective. AMJ 2012, 5, 5, 275-283. http//dx.doi.org/10.4066/AMJ.2012.1222.

Statement regarding use of informally shared human milk from the American Academy of Nursing on Policy Position, from Nurs Outlook. 64 (2016) 98-102.

Sharing breastmilk: wet nursing, cross-feeding, and milk donations, by Virginia Thorley, from Breastfeed Rev. 2008 Mar;16(1):25-9.

Nursing Two (a mom’s story of cross nursing in an emergency situation) by Julia Richter, from New Beginnings, Vol. 21 No. 5, September-October 2004, p. 171.

Lawrence R. Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession, 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Mosby, 2005: 732-733 (Section on wet nursing & cross nursing).

Mother to Mother Milk Sharing

Human Milk 4 Human Babies

Eats on Feets

Milk Banking

Milk Bank FAQ @ KellyMom

Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA)

Donor human milk from the San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition

Use of Heat Processed, Banked Donor Human Milk (Appendix 4-D) from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative’s Nutritional Support of the Very Low Birth Weight Infant Quality Improvement Toolkit

Donor milk FAQ from the Milk Bank.

Becoming a Donor to a Human Milk Bank by Lois D. W. Arnold, MPH, IBCLC

Human Milk Banking (CEU/CERP program) by Vergie Hughes RN MS IBCLC

A Snapshot of Milk Banking in Other Countries from Leaven, Vol. 36 No. 2, April-May 2000, pp. 22-23

Clinical Uses of Donor Milk by Lois D.W. Arnold, from J Hum Lact 1990; 6; 132. DOI: 10.1177/089033449000600326

Milk Bank websites

Milk bank locations in the US & Canada from the Human Milk Banking Association of North America (non-profit donor human milk banking). Contact individual milk banks for information on donating or receiving milk.

International Breast Milk Project. This is a for-profit milk bank, Prolacta Bioscience, that produces human milk fortifier for critically ill and premature infants in the NICU.

European Milk Bank Association

Bancos de Leite Humano (BLH-BR) — Brazil’s Human Milk Bank network

Iberoamerican Program of Human Milk Banks (IberBLH)