Orange County Breastfeeding Coalition

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The Elixir of Life

• Promoting The Use of Pasteurized Donor Milk on a
  Community Level

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• Human milk is the preferred feeding for all
  infants, including premature and sick newborns,
  with rare exceptions.
• (American Academy of Pediatrics and the World
  Health Organization)

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• Human milk is species specific.
• It provides unique benefits that include
• Improved developmental
• Social
• Economic
• Environmental outcomes

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Breastmilk is 100 natural. These unique
properties can not be duplicated.
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Breastmilk Has Protective Factors That either
eliminate the risk for or lessen the severity of

• Otitis Media
• Upper Respiratory Infections
• Gastroenteritis
• Necrotizing Enterocolitis
• Allergies
• Asthma
• Eczema

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For The Really Fragile Babies

• Breastmilk Can Save Their Life
• Faster weight and overall growth gains
• It is more easily digested
• It is 100 safe and sterile
• Premature babies fed breastmilk were able to go
  home earlier than those fed formula.

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But What About Those Moms Who Cant Produce Their
Own Milk?

• The Next Best is
• Pasteurized Donor Breastmilk

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What is Pasteurized Donor Breastmilk?

• It is milk collected from other breastfeeding
  moms.
• It is donated milk that is heated at a high
  temperature to kill the germs or viruses in the
  milk.
• It is shipped from the Milk Bank to the hospital
  or homes of babies who need it.

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What Does All Of This Have To Do With You?

• Barriers
• We need to create solutions that dont follow the
  usual avenues.
• Social Support
• Hospitals respond to market demands
• Moms need to be supported in making the decision
  to use donor milk.
• Marketing
• If more people became aware of the importance
  that donor breastmilk plays in the health of our
  most fragile, we could actually shift the
  paradigm.

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What Is That Paradigm?

• That formula is the normal option that should be
  given to a baby when their own mothers is not
  yet or unable to provide her own milk.

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What Is The Shift?

• That human milk should be the only option when a
  mothers own milk is not available.

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Again, What Does This Have To Do With You?

• We need you to talk.
• We need you to share the information that youve
  learned today/tonight.
• We need you to take the information youve
  learned and give it to others who can and will
  use it.

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We Also Need Help With

• Recruiting potential donors or potential
  candidate for using donor milk.
• Providing donors with the tools they need to pump
  and store their milk.
• Help with shipping and sometimes distribution to
  other hospitals.

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What Are Your Thoughts?
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Are You Up For A Challenge?

• Can a Lion become a Lactivist?

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Thank you for your time.

• Final Thoughts
• Be open minded.
• Take the information youve heard tonight and
  think about it.
• Contact us
• www.ocbreastfeedingcoalition.org

Please see the Human Milk Banking Association of
North Americas Website for verification of the
comments made in this presentation
www.hmbana.org Or The San Jose Mothers Milk
Bank http//www.milkbanksj.org