Every donation tells a story – and every story brings a glimmer of hope – Europe
When the European Milk Bank Association reached out to families... Read more >>
When the European Milk Bank Association reached out to families... Read more >>
You give hope to newborns’ families... Read more >>
Born at 26 week’s gestation... Read more >>
Born at 26 week’s gestation plus 4 days... Read more >>
Sometimes, simply the availability of donor milk is enough... Read more >>
No mother wants to hear the words ‘You must give birth now, we need to perform an emergency Caesarean... Read more >>
New born babies often develop jaundice within their first few days.. Read more >>
Our little girl, who was born with a very rare form of brain cancer... Read more >>
Sometimes everything happens suddenly… Read more >>
Donor human milk is traditionally thought of as a food and a therapy for babies who have been born early... Read more >>
There are 36 milk banks, or lactariums as they are known, in France... Read more >>
As starts to life go, needing urgent gut surgery for a malrotation is not the best.. Read more >>
One year old and healthy! Daniele’s story... Read more >>
We all know that life often takes unexpected turns... Read more >>
For anyone working on a neonatal unit, a diagnosis of necrotising enterocolitis brings great concerns for the infant... Read more >>
There are many situations and circumstances where a baby has no opportunity to receive his or her own mother’s milk... Read more >>
The care that can now be given to babies born as early as 23 – 24 weeks gestation means that their chances of survival have increased greatly in the past couple of decades... Read more >>
Today my baby is 10 weeks old and as I write this, she is happily feeding with a milk drunk look on her face... Read more >>
This tiny baby, all tucked up with Mum, alongside the tubes and the tapes and her mask, couldn’t be in a safer place... Read more >>
The arrival of twins brings added concerns and responsibilities for new parents who wonder how they will cope with two tiny new lives to care for... Read more >>
Most babies start on donor milk on their first day of life or soon afterwards but this baby, born at term with no problems, was 8 weeks old when it was first provided from the milk bank in Sofia... Read more >>
Breastfeeding was extremely important to Agnieska or Aga as known to her husband... Read more >>
Twelve years ago, after her first child was born, this little boy’s mother had a lot of milk. She tells that if she had known about milk banks at the time, she would have donated her extra milk. As the mother of three boys, she knows a lot about babies... Read more >>
You wouldn’t know from looking at his photograph, but this young man was born at 25 weeks gestation. That’s a very tiny beginning for any child and one that sets him or her onto a challenging path to being big enough, physically mature enough and well enough to be able to leave the hospital and go home... Read more >>
From the lovely Swiss town of St Gallen came two different but, in some ways, similar stories of two tiny girls Baby 1 and Baby 2... Read more >>
I was diagnosed with leukaemia when I was 12 weeks pregnant... Read more >>
This beautiful little girl has Downs and was born with an AVSD heart condition (in which there are holes between the chambers of the heart needing surgical repair)... Read more >>
Premature babies face many challenges during their first few days and weeks having been born with immature brains, lungs, digestive and immune systems... Read more >>
The spotlight on donor milk recipients very often falls on very tiny, premature and low birthweight infants. And globally these are the babies for whom there is a growing body of research evidence to back its use... Read more >>
Twins and triplets are more likely to be born early. And when they are, their mother has double or treble the need for a good milk supply to ensure they can receive only human milk... Read more >>
Some babies need donor milk for many days, weeks or even months. For others, it only takes a few days before their mothers are able to express enough of their own milk to meet their nutritional requirements... Read more >>