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Human milk is often called "liquid gold." This reflects the golden hue of colostrum, a mother's first milk, and more importantly, the value of the irreproducible nutrients, antibodies, and growth factors babies receive with each nursing.
Numerous studies prove the nutritional and immunologic qualities of human milk and support its use as a preventive treatment for many diseases.
Mothers have shared their unique wealth with other mothers and babies throughout history and around the world.
Some mothers of ill and premature infants are unable to provide enough milk for their babies. These infants can benefit greatly from banked donor human milk. The gift of human milk can mean the difference between life and death. Use of human milk can prevent many serious, long term complications of prematurity.
The Mothers' Milk Bank of New England is proud to be part of this tradition. The MMBNE is a non-profit community milk bank operating under the guidelines of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA)
We invite you to browse our website and learn more about milk banking.
Mission Statement
The Mothers' Milk Bank of New England is a non-profit community milk bank whose mission is to provide donor human milk to newborns in need by:
collecting, pasteurizing and dispensing donor human milk;
educating the medical and general communities about indications for, benefits and use of donor human milk;
and contributing to furthering our knowledge of donor human milk through research.