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donating milk

DahliaFlowerDahliaFlower member
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Have you donated any milk to a milk bank?  I may end up donating or discarding milk I pumped and froze while still eating dairy products b/c LO seems to have a milk protein intolerance.  

Should I just Google milk bank or is there anyplace I should check out?
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Re: donating milk

  • VitaLunaVitaLuna member
    If you can't donate through a milk bank, please consider donating through human milk for human babies instead if throwing it out. Lots of mamas would love to have it!

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  • kalettekalette member
    I donated to a local mom I found on Human Milk for Human Babies FB page. Way better than having to toss it all out!
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  • kjsmith9kjsmith9 member
    somerandomchick said:
    Google for the nearest HMBANA milk bank. Even if they're not in driving distance, they'll pay for shipping--my nearest one is 3 hours away so they're sending me a box to overnight them. They usually want 100 oz minimum donation though, to make it worth paying for the blood test (to make sure you don't have anything that colic pass through milk like HIV)

    All of this - the milk bank I used was only 1.5 hours away, but I work full time and they didn't mind sending a cooler for me to ship it back in.  Mine wanted 150oz minimum donation.  Good for you for helping other LO's :)
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  • BLPL101BLPL101 member
    I donated to a friend who adopted a baby. There are so many women who need your milk! :)
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