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The Heroes of 2020 Advent Calendar is now live! Each day leading up to Christmas we will be sharing an inspiring story of our participant’s achievements. December 1 is dedicated to Marea Ryan, Founder & CEO of Mothers Milk Bank Charity in Australia. It all started in 2005 when funds were raised by the community to provide a baby named “Ty” with pasteurized donor mothers milk. Ty’s mother had a medical condition that resulted in milk expression of only 30mls a day. Ty was given every cow’s milk formula but experienced pain and vomited each feed. Providing safe donor breast milk for babies ..read more

Over the years Mothers’ Milk Bank Charity has had much delight in helping intending parents to be and surrogate mothers receive milk from the Charity either as partial or total breast milk feeds. Our connection with Growing Families was strengthened recently through our participation in a national conference. Lynne Hall showcased our ability to provide breast milk for surrogates and intended parents without concerns about supply for them from us. As requested by the conference organiser, she talked through inducing lactation and the use of a supply lines using donor milk. The Charity is workin ..read more

TO THE HUMAN MILKEMERGENCY RESERVE Please help families who have a baby in real need! GIVE BREASTMILK to the Mothers’ Milk Bank Human Milk Emergency Reserve Arthur I. Eidelman, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Breastfeeding Medicine, states: “Given the reality that mothers infected with coronavirus have probably already colonized their nursing infant, continued breastfeeding has the potential of transmitting protective maternal antibodies to the infant via the breast milk. Thus, breastfeeding should be continued with the mother carefully practicing handwashing and wearing a mask while nursing, to minimi ..read more

Six-week-old Willow falls asleep after having a feed from mother Danielle Martin. ABC News: Melissa Maddison Every Australian newborn could soon have access to donated breastmilk — no matter where they are — after scientists pioneered a way to convert the milk into powder without losing its critical life-saving properties. Key points: Scientists have taken three years to figure out how to process fresh breastmilk into powdered form that can be stored for years It means every newborn should be able to access breastmilk through the newly formed Australian Breast Milk Bank Those involved with th ..read more

By Julia van Zon When Lucy began her breastfeeding journey with baby Pippa, she never imagined how her own journey would help so many other Australian mums and their babies. Lucy has been breastfeeding Pippa for almost two years and simultaneously collecting milk for donation for premature babies and babies whose mothers are unable to breastfeed. As soon as Lucy knew donating her oversupply of breast milk was a possibility, she jumped at the opportunity to help others. Her first donation was 40 litres of liquid gold when Pippa was just four months old. “The gift of being able to help babies an ..read more

Australia’s first community-based breast milk bank is hoping four mothers in every 100 can donate breast milk to help build a reserve for emergency events like fire, drought, floods, and now a global pandemic. Founder and director of the Mothers Milk Bank, Marea Ryan, identified the urgent need for a reserve after seeing gaps around recent emergencies. “We’ve launched a project to gather as much breast milk as we can, so that we can have an emergency reserve of breast milk with the emergency services in each state for all these babies in need,” she said. Ms Ryan says initially they are looking ..read more

YAAMA NGUNNA BAAKA “SAVE THE RIVERS” Featuring: Marcia Howard, Nadia Sunde, Zardi Contributors: Eleanor Clapham, John Sutton, Liam Gubbins, Isaac Barter Background to “Save The Rivers” – The Ruby Hunter Legacy In September 2019 The Mothers Milk Bank Charity -Founder/ Director was honored to be invited to the Yaama Ngunna Baaka Corroborees Festival. The role of the arts and music to reflect the needs of the society we live in has been and integral part of the Mothers Milk Bank Charity since its inception in 2005. Sales of the Gift A Women’s Song cd provided the income to build and purpose desig ..read more