MILK BANK
Updated 371 days ago
5925 Dillard Circle Austin, TX 78752
Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin is a non-profit organization whose mission is to save babies' lives by providing prescribed donor human milk...
Two Austin neonatologists, Dr. Sonny Rivera and Dr. George Sharpe, invited other healthcare providers to discuss the formation of a milk bank to serve the Central Texas region. Drs. Sharpe and Rivera had observed that the tiny preterm and ill babies in the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) they supervised fared better on human milk. Citing the medical literature that documented better health outcomes and lower care costs for infants receiving mothers' milk - and noting that the nearest milk bank was in Denver - the two physicians gathered support from their hospitals and colleagues to go ahead with the project. An advisory board was created and a name was chosen: Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin...
The largest nonprofit human milk bank in the world. Sign up today to help fragile babies survive by donating your breast milk!