Donor Milk

Donor milk is expressed breast milk to a mother he left for a baby from another mother. The importance of breast milk for babies, especially under special circumstances, in recent years increasingly recognized.

The World Health Organization (WHO) provides international guidelines on infant nutrition . If a child does not of its own mother's milk can get, for whatever reason, then preference is given to the milk from a donor parent . In most countries this is done through milk banks .

In the past, many Dutch hospitals a milk bank. Those are the late 70s all closed. If a mother breast now need, they can via the Milk Network seek mediation with a milk donor.