First breast mlik 'depot' opens in South Florida [View all]

[superpatriotman]

Color me out of touch. I never knew 'milk banks' existed.

I smell privateers and capitalists all over breast milk at $600/gallon!

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/health/fl-breast-milk-depot-20130228,0,7304408.story

Say hello to Florida's first nonprofit breast milk "depot," the brainchild of a Cooper City mom who couldn't breastfeed her severely allergic baby and discovered how hard it was to find safe donor milk.
The depot, which officially opened Feb. 19 in The Gathering Place maternity center in Miami, aims to chip away at the shortage of breast milk available for frail babies by making safe donation available to more South Florida women. Three Broward County hospitals are among at least 16 in Florida using the processed human milk to feed their neediest preemies.
"The only safe way to share milk is through a milk bank," said Amy Vickers, executive director of the Mothers' Milk Bank of North Texas, which receives the South Florida depot's milk for processing. "It's a misappropriated and scarce resource. We would love to have enough milk for all babies, but for pre-term babies, it's life and death."

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Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood, Memorial Hospital West in Pembroke Pines and Memorial Hospital Miramar all use milk from Human Milk Banking Association centers in Texas. At $4.50 an ounce, the donor milk is covered by insurance, along with other nutritional and medicinal NICU services, Updegrove said.

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