By Naomi Bar-Yam, PhD, and Christopher Duggan, MD, MPH Ranging from scuttling of environmental air and water protections, seeking rescindment of the Affordable Care Act or casting aspersions on the ... More
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Is Milk Exchange Normal?
Edited from original 2016 post, updated for 2018 National Public Health Week. As we have discussed in our previous National Public Health Week blogs, breastfeeding is the biological norm. ... More
Newest Medical Board Member Susan Laster Seeks to Increase Donor Milk Awareness
A warm welcome to Dr. Susan Laster, the newest member of the milk bank’s Medical Advisory Board and advocate for donor milk awareness. Our boards include two dozen physicians, scientists, ... More
Donating Milk to Save Lives: Gricelda and Baby Cinco
George V, aka Five or Cinco. By Gricelda Simler I donated milk after hearing the tragic story of my sister’s friend’s babies in Venezuela. She had given birth to her twins, but three days later ... More
Making the Dream True
Adapted from original January 18, 2016 post. In observing the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr, we think about how he was making the dream come true and explore what that means for us today as a ... More
Celebrating Breastfeeding Support in Zeros and Fives
A Brief Advocacy History For most of the world’s history, breastfeeding was the way babies ate. It did not require a social movement or national and international organizations to support, promote ... More
