Our Human Milk Bank service based at the South West Acute Hospital, Enniskillen are supporting World Human Milk Donation Day, which is held globally each year on the 19 May. Susan Rogers, Lead Nurse Public Health at the Western Trust expressed her thanks to all our milk bank donors for their continued support: “We are indebted to our donor mums who have continued to provide essential donor breast milk for babies in neonatal units in hospitals throughout Ireland. We are delighted to invite our do

Breastmilk storage guidelines (source: American Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Clinical Protocol #8 Human Milk Storage for FULL TERM infants) 💦 under CLEAN conditions, did you know that milk can be freshly expressed at room temp for up to 8 hours (cooler room = better)and in your fridge for up to 8 days?? 💦 That’s a lot of milk many mamas have likely discarded as “bad” when what we should have said was that it wasn’t “optimal”. Let’s share this knowledge with others an empower ourselves to

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