How To Donate Breast Milk To Hospital. Put freshly pumped milk straight into the fridge or freezer. Luckily, mothers who produce more milk than their own infant needs can donate their milk for these hospitalized infants.
If stored initially in the refrigerator, move it to the freezer as soon as possible, within 4 days max. The age of your baby. Breast milk has the power to help many babies — not just your own — have the healthiest possible start at life.
Donating breast milk does include a process, which includes getting some blood tests done.
Our human milk bank is the only one in the west midlands, providing donor breast milk to our own neonatal babies, as well as to hospitals around the region and beyond. Pasteurisation will see the milk first get heated to 60.5 degrees celsius for 30 minutes, and then suddenly cooled to negative 18 degrees celsius. What do you think of this kind of business model for milk banks? Breast milk banks are mostly used in hospitals to help with feeding premature or sick babies in neonatal intensive care units (nicus).