Description
Non-profit milk banks provide a safe and affordable source of pasteurized donor human milk to premature infants in the NICU setting. Pediatric outpatients with formula intolerance and other serious medical conditions may also benefit from donor milk.
Non-profit milk banks use Holder pasteurization to deactivate bacterial and viral contaminants while maintaining bioactive factors that help shape a healthy infant microbiome.
Watch this webinar by Summer Kelly MS, RN, IBCLC to gain a behind-the-scenes look at a nonprofit milk bank, where science, safety, and ethics converge to ensure equitable access and community engagement.
Objectives
1. Identify two human milk bioactive factors that help shape the infant microbiome.
2. Identify two bioactive factors that are retained after pasteurization.
3. Identify two themes that emerge from the experience of donating milk after perinatal loss.
Certificate
By completing/passing this course, you will attain the certificate Medela University Accredited Certificate
Learning credits
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