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National Public Health Week: Donor Milk as a Bridge to Breastfeeding
Each year National Public Health Week, celebrated the first full week in April, explores, honors, and educates about some dimension of public health by looking at science, action, health, and justice....
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Milk Bank Milestone: 15 years
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. – John Lennon Fifteen years ago this week, March...
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A Family Physician’s Unexpected Journey: From Premature Twins to Milk Donation
Family physician Jessica Faraci tells her story of receiving milk for her twins and later donating back. Read more of her work at Pulse—voices from...
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2020 By the Numbers: Growth and Flexibility at the Milk Bank
2020 was a year full of growth and flexibility at Mothers’ Milk Bank Northeast—growth as we continued to supply lifesaving donor milk, and flexibility as...
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COVID-19 and Breastfeeding: Lessons from the Past Brought Forward
Final of four in a series Anniversaries (of birth, marriage, death, countries’ independence, war, peace) are an opportunity to celebrate, mourn, reflect back, project forward....
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MelroseWakefield Healthcare Baby Café Empowers Milk Recipient to Become Milk Donor
Lisa tells her story of receiving milk at MelroseWakefield Hospital, then going on to donate milk twice, with the support of the Baby Café. When...
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