Philadelphia Business Journal (Nov 11, 2024) - The Highmark Bright Blue Futures Awards, now in its second year, recognize the critical work of nonprofits tackling health disparities across Highmark’s footprint of Pennsylvania, western and northeastern...
Pittsburgh Business Times - On October 17, Mid-Atlantic Mothers' Milk Bank hosted its Milkshake & Cookies event at the PPG Wintergarden downtown. The event included a contest where local companies were judged by a panel...
Union Progress (October 1, 2024) - Denise O’Connor and the Mid-Atlantic Mothers' Milk Bank staff and board of directors knew the nonprofit had outgrown its rented Lawrenceville building at the end of 2022. So they started...
Pittsburgh Business Times (September 23, 2024) - Highmark Health and the Highmark Foundation on Monday gave out grants totaling $490,000 to several nonprofits within the Pittsburgh-based health organization's operating area, including the Mid-Atlantic Mothers' Milk...
KDKA (September 19, 2024) - Research shows how critical breast milk is for newborn babies, but when a new mom cannot supply their own, donor milk can be lifesaving. The need is only growing, forcing...
The Bradford Era - Many newborns in the Maternal and Child Center at Penn Highlands DuBois are breastfed; however, you may be surprised to learn that not all of the breast milk they receive is...
Spotlight PA (July 16, 2024) - Eve Lieberum died on her third day of life. But before her death, her mother Abbie Lieberum was able to give the newborn some of her milk. Eve was born...
When my daughter was born at 23 weeks and 5 days, there was very little I could do to take care of her besides pump breastmilk. She couldn’t even have my milk through a feeding...
In May 2015 I had a stillborn baby, my son Caleb, at 35 weeks. I didn’t know about the milk bank at this point, and had to let my milk dry up, which was so...
When my second son was born, I started pumping almost immediately, because I anticipated he would have the same challenges nursing that my first son had. Thankfully, he nursed well, but I kept pumping because...