The Washington Post (May 19, 2022) - As the formula shortage continues to roil the United States, many parents are desperate for other sources of nutrition for their infants. Milk banks, where humans donate their own breast milk to be pasteurized and stored for someone else’s...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (May 16, 2022) - When Shannon Waldschmidt, 38, of West Deer, saw on Facebook that her friend was desperately searching for a particular type of formula for her 8-month-old son, she and other moms sprang into action to help her track it down. Pittsburgh-area...
Fox 43 (May 12, 2022) - YORK, Pa. — Amid a national infant formula shortage, photos of 20th century home infant formula recipes are inundating social media. Pediatricians warn parents against trying them. “Formula today has many different nutrients that really cannot be duplicated with home recipes,”...
Tribune-Review (March 29, 2022) - Pennsylvania legislators will join community advocates Wednesday to promote a bill that would authorize insurance coverage for medically prescribed pasteurized donor breast milk to infants with serious health conditions. “Without human donor breast milk, I don’t know where my babies would...
KDKA (February 10, 2022) – Mid-Atlantic Mother’s Milk Bank in Pittsburgh’s Strip District is seeing a huge rise in demand for donor breast milk. If you’ve never heard of MAMMB, executive director Denise O’Connor said it’s like a blood bank but for human milk. As the pandemic...
90.5 WESA (January 25, 2022) - Milk banks across the U.S. report they’re running low on breast milk donations. In Pittsburgh, milk bank officials say they have more than enough milk right now, but they’re trying to get ahead of potential future shortage by recruiting...
Tribune-Review (January 8, 2022) - Thanks to the efforts of nearly 2,000 carefully screened volunteer donors, the Mid-Atlantic Mother’s Milk Bank distributed its 1 millionth ounce of pasteurized human donor milk since its establishment in 2016. Pasteurized donor human milk provides critical nutrients and immunological support for...
WTAE (March 20, 2020) - There is now concern that donations to the Mother's Milk Bank in Pittsburgh will start to dip due to the spread of the coronavirus. The director of the Mid-Atlantic Mothers' Milk Bank is asking nursing mothers to consider donating breast milk...
NextPittsburgh (March 20, 2020) - Denise O’Connor, executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Mothers’ Milk Bank, is making sure the region’s youngest residents don’t go hungry during the COVID-19 pandemic. The organization, which opened in 2015 in the Strip District, is ramping up efforts to meet the demand...
Tribune-Review (March 19, 2020) - The head of a Pittsburgh breast milk bank is encouraging healthy mothers to donate milk to families in need, as demand increases during the coronavirus pandemic. Denise O’Connor is executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Mothers’ Milk Bank, based in Pittsburgh’s Strip District. “Donor...