The Brooklyn Birthing Center has opened NYC’s first donor milk depot. As many know, breast milk can give fragile babies a healthier start in life. They have an affiliate milk bank that they are partnering with, the Mother’s Milk Bank Northeast, that “provides donor milk to the NICUs (neonatal intensive care units) at 3 major NYC hospitals: NYU Langone, Bellevue, and Maimonides.” As the Brooklyn Birthing Center explains, “For a host of medical reasons, donor milk is quickly becoming the standard supplement to mothers’ milk for babies in NICUs. As the only freestanding birthing center in the area, our goal is to promote milk banking and make participation more convenient by providing a drop-off location for donors.”
Please look at the website for both organizations if you can donate, or need, breastmilk. Please share this information with friends as well. Our babies deserve the best!
If you are interested in becoming a donor, look HERE.