The Journal of Pediatrics January 2010 issue reported that a small study found that refrigerated breast milk can be refrigerated for up to four days without losing its nutritional value or allowing bacteria to build up.
Researchers at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York, stored breast milk samples from 36 mothers in the refrigerators [...]
HealthDay News recently announced that “even through a growing percentage of American moms start their infants on human milk, relatively few continue breastfeeding for the baby’s first six months of life, let alone an entire year.”
One of the reasons is due to maternity leave. Working women return to work (too?) soon after their baby is [...]
November is National Prematurity Awareness Month and Medela is kicking it off with a virtual human milk collection campaign to donate $20,000 in neonatal human milk support products to Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU).
Here’s how it works: Throughout the month of November people can visit www.medelapreemieawareness.com to register and vote for their preferred NICU. The [...]
