If you are a healthy, lactating mother who doesn’t drink, smoke, or use certain medications, please consider donating your extra milk to the WakeMed Mother’s Milk Bank. This milk bank, which is one of only 2 serving the entire east coast, is running critically low on milk due to increased demand. The milk bank is an invaluable resource to our community. They supply donor milk to WBWC, and many of our moms depend on this donated breastmilk for infants who have difficulty latching or gaining weight, or are jaundiced or premature.
According to WakeMed’s press release, “Most donor mothers find they can begin pumping extra milk (typically four ounces each day) to donate once their own children are a few weeks old and are regularly gaining weight. Donors store the milk in their home freezer, then deliver the milk to WakeMed.”
If you are interested in becoming a donor or have more questions, contact the milk bank (919-350-8599) or email the program coordinator at suevans@wakemed.org . You can also contact Kerra Bolton at WakeMed Health & Hospitals (919-350-5695) or kbolton@wakemed.org.
We hope our generous community of WBWC families will take this opportunity to help out other moms and babies in need!
Are you financially compensated in any way for this?
The WakeMed press release says, "Milk is donated to the WakeMed Mothers' Milk Bank, and donors are never paid. However, the Mothers' Milk Bank assumes all costs for blood testing and supplies containers to store milk. "