Northwest Mothers Milk Bank

News

  • HMBANA, ILCA, USBC and La Leche League issue an urgent need on 1/25/10 for donor breast milk for infants in Haiti.  Milk donations can be made through a HMBANA milk bank. Read the press release.
  • NWMMB is featured as an Angel Among Us in the January 2010 Metro Parent magazine.  Read it online - page 38
  • FOX12 profiles a Portland family who says donor milk could have saved their baby.  See video.
  • HMBANA features NWMMB in November 2009 newsletter.  Read page 4 in the newsletter.
  • Portland's Metro Parent Magazine writes about NWMMB.  See sidebar on page 12 of the baby issue.
  • Examiner.com highlights NWMMB. October 2009  Read the article.
  • Portland Adventist's donor depot in Nursing Week. September 2009 Read the article online.
  • Global Sistergoods highlights NWMMB.  Read the blog.
  • Donor Depot and NWMMB make the Oregonian.  Read the 8/5/09 Oregonian article featuring the new donor depot at Portland Adventist.
  • Portland Adventist's new donor depot featured on evening news.  KGW News Channel 8 features a donor mom and information on the new donor depot.
  • Portland Adventist opens new donor depot.  This Adventist Medical Center press release highlights the new donor depot in East Portland.
  • NWMMB on KBOO Community Radio.  Listen to board member Dixie Whetsell, MS, IBCLC interviewed about our efforts to build a milk bank in Portland.
  • Milk Shortage at the Mothers Milk Bank of North Texas.  Watch a great video about the need for more milk donors in Texas.
  • CBS News on premies and breastmilk.  CBS Evening News highlights a UCSD program encouraging the use of breastmilk with premies.  Watch the video.
  • Letter to the Editor.  NWMMB Chair June Winfield's follow-up letter to the editor of the Oregonian appeared Sunday March 1, 2009.  Read it online.
  • NWMMB featured in the Oregonian.  A wonderful article with photos appeared in the Wednesday February 25, 2009 Oregonian announcing the opening of our first donor depot at Providence Newberg Hospital and highlighting our work to build a milk bank.  Read it online.
  • Milk Banking in Oprah Magazine.  Milk banking and one mom's heartbreaking story of donating milk following her own loss are highlighted in a March 2009 article.  Read this mom's amazing story. In an associated piece, the need for insurance companies to cover the costs of donor milk is explored.

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