Breast Milk Banks: Purpose and Importance

Because they require specialized nutrition and antibodies only found in breast milk

To provide breast milk to babies in need

Difficulty in collecting enough breast milk donations

<p>It is the preferred feeding for all infants, except for low birth weight babies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Human milk from other sources should be used when the biological mother cannot breastfeed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Establishing and operation of Human Milk Banks</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure availability of human milk for low birth weight and preterm babies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is the only milk uniquely suited to human infants</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Use banked human milk from a milk bank</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Establishing milk banks across the country especially in large NICUs</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reduction in the rate of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cost of running a milk bank</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It does not have the same nutritional value as human milk</p> Signup and view all the answers