UPDATE, DEC 13: Outpatient services have resumed. Families can place one-time or repeat orders for up to 20 bottles of donor milk at this time. As always, thank you for your patience as we work to ensure that our most medically fragile infants have access to this essential, yet limited, medical resource.
Order Milk For Your Baby
Donor milk is a limited medical resource. As a small non-profit committed to saving newborn lives, our milk is prioritized for the most medically fragile babies. Very often, these babies are being cared for in the NICU. We often have donor milk available for families in the community to provide for their newborn on a short-term basis. Thanks for your understanding.
Please Note:
- Orders placed before 10:00am Mon – Fri are processed on the same day.
- Orders placed after 10:00am Mon – Fri are processed the following business day.
- Milk Bank pick up orders may be picked up after 10:00am Mon – Fri.
First Time Orders: This option is for first time outpatient purchasers ONLY. It does not require a prescription and has a purchase maximum of 20 bottles.
Repeat Orders: This option is for repeat purchasers. A maximum of 20 bottles per week may be ordered with a prescription.
We urge you to consider supporting our milk bank through milk or financial contributions if you are ever able to do so. Your generous support will enable future growth so that donor milk is more widely available.
Outpatient Donor Milk Dispensaries
Families who live near Northampton, MA; Glastonbury, CT; Lewiston, ME; Portland, ME; Belmont, NH; Lebanon, NH; or Essex Junction, VT may be able to pick up milk at one of our donor milk dispensaries. To learn more, visit our Donor Milk Dispensaries page. If you would like to pick up milk at any of our dispensaries please contact them directly.
Safe Milk Requires a Processing Fee
Using a HMBANA-certified milk bank like Mothers’ Milk Bank Northeast is the best way to ensure that your donor milk is safely screened, processed and distributed. There is a charge for pasteurized donor human milk because of the process that makes it safe—thorough screening of donors, testing, pasteurizing, and careful shipping.
Financial Assistance
When we have the capacity to serve outpatients, we offer financial assistance through our CARES (Critical Access Resource Equity Subsidy) and our GIFT (Growing Infants For Tomorrow) Programs. If your baby has a prescription for donor milk and you are facing financial difficulties, please click here to learn more about these programs.
Insurance Coverage
If your baby is already home, then you must purchase the milk yourself. Although it is rare, health insurance occasionally covers some or all of the cost, so we encourage you to call your company to request coverage. For military families, TRICARE covers donor milk from HMBANA milk banks for certain conditions, when prescribed by a TRICARE-authorized provider. Currently Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, California, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Utah, Illinois, Oregon, Louisiana, Kentucky and Washington, DC have Medicaid and/or insurance mandates or coverage provisions. Advocacy for coverage in other states is ongoing.
Medical Professionals
To order donor milk for a hospital, see our resources for medical professionals.
