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Do you have milk that is surplus to your own baby’s needs?
Your local milk bank – The Hearts Milk Bank needs you!
Did you know that your excess milk could be donated to help tiny premature babies in neonatal intensive care and can be life-saving? If you’d like to find out more about donating your surplus milk, come along to meet our lactation support team and learn about the work of The Hearts Milk Bank. If you decide you would like to sign up to become a milk donor on the day, our team will be on hand to help you complete the process. Taking the time to become a milk donor is an amazing step. You could be changing the lives of another baby and their family forever.
Supported by The Human Milk Foundation charity, The Hearts Milk Bank is based in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. We supply donor milk to over 50 NHS hospital neonatal intensive care units including Watford General, Luton & Dunstable and The Lister, along with supporting families at home such as mums with cancer and other health conditions. With an ever-increasing need for donor milk from hospitals, we urgently need to recruit more local milk donors to help us build up larger stocks at the milk bank.
Becoming a milk donor is similar to becoming a blood donor. Relatively few things would prevent you becoming a milk donor, but we cannot accept donations if you are smoking, vaping or using nicotine replacement products. We also require a minimum of 2 litres of expressed milk that was frozen within 24 hours of being expressed, from within the last 10 weeks.
For more information about the process of becoming a milk donor, the screening process and FAQs visit our milk donors page. If you cannot make the event but would still like to talk with the team about donating your milk, please drop us an email on: info@heartsmilkbank.org.
– Free to attend
– Tea,coffee, and biscuits will be provided
We look forward to seeing you there!
The Hearts Milk Bank Team