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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
WFMZ-TV (Mar 4, 2020) - Allentown, Pa. - The first breast milk dispensary in Pennsylvania is now open in Lehigh County, and it's ready to serve local mothers and their babies. Ashley Greggo was a breast...
Read a fantastic article written by our board member Jan Mallak, published in International Doula Volume 27 Issue 2. 2019....
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (June 4, 2019) - Amid growing demand among mothers and hospitals for breast milk, Pennsylvania is considering regulating milk donation to ban unsafe practices in sharing breast milk. The state House of Representatives voted...
90.5 WESA (April 19, 2019) - More mothers are turning to milk banks for pasteurized donor human breast milk to give to needy infants. The organizations collect, test and treat the milk that is later...
WTAE (August 23, 2018) - Days after Ellis was born, his parents got the news. "They called and they said Ellis is sick," said the baby's father, Caleb Lough. "We were like, 'What do you mean...