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06 Nov Providing Nourishment For Newborns At The Three Rivers Mothers’ Milk Bank

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90.5 WESA (Novemeber 6, 2015) - Infant mortality in Western Pennsylvania is more than 17 percent higher than the national average, with significant disparities between white and African American babies. To combat these statistics and improve the health of newborns in the region, the Three...

09 Oct Local Breast Milk Bank Opening Soon

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KDKA (October 9, 2015) - Local intensive care units for newborns, called NICUs, used to have to turn to Columbus, Ohio for the nearest supply of banked breast milk. Now, in the Strip District, Pittsburgh will have a milk bank of its own, supplying the NICUs...

08 Oct Pennsylvania’s first breast milk bank accepting donations.

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Pittsburgh Courier (October 8, 2015) - Pennsylvania’s first breast milk bank is now accepting donations from nursing mothers in anticipation of its November opening in Pittsburgh. Three Rivers Mothers’ Milk Bank will service sick babies throughout both Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The nonprofit’s 5,000-square-foot building will include...

Founder Denise O'Connor of McCandless stands for a portrait in the future space of Three Rivers Mothers' Milk Bank in the Strip District on Monday, Oct. 5, 2015. She stands in front of where the bank's two pasteurizers will be once the space is up and running. O'Connor estimates November as their opening date.

06 Oct Three Rivers Mothers’ Milk Bank will get breast milk to babies in need

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Tribune-Review (October 6, 2015) - For some babies, human breast milk is medicine. Pittsburgh is about to become home to a breast-milk bank equipped with a pasteurization and bottling laboratory, freezers and a classroom. The nonprofit Three Rivers Mothers' Milk Bank is taking shape in a...

08 May Breast milk donation saves babies, helps grieving moms find meaning in loss

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PennLive (May 8, 2015) - She knew her baby wouldn't survive, but from a place of unspeakable pain she chose to help someone else's child. That's a common scenario in the neonatal intensive care unit at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. While finding the courage to say the...

06 May Pittsburgh breast milk bank could open in Strip District by fall

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (May 6, 2015) - Funding continues apace, a location has been located and would-be donors are ready to donate, all of which is coalescing nicely for a late summer or early fall opening of the Three Rivers Mothers’ Milk Bank, set to be...

06 May Pennsylvania’s first breast milk bank to open in Pittsburgh.

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WTAE (May 6, 2015) - The first breast milk bank that will service the entire state is set to open in Pittsburgh in late summer or early fall. The Three Rivers Mothers' Milk Bank, a nonprofit organization, will provide donated breast milk to babies in neonatal...

06 May Pennsylvania’s first breast milk bank to open in Pittsburgh

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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports the Three Rivers Mothers' Milk Bank is opening in late summer or early fall. Organizers say it will make breast milk available to babies in neonatal intensive-care units when their mothers are unavailable. Breast milk will also be given to outpatient babies who...

04 Jan Efforts under way for breast milk bank in Pittsburgh

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Tribune-Review (January 4, 2015) - When Teresa Vinisky gave birth to premature twins in 2002, she was in a bind common to mothers of preemies — she wanted to breastfeed because doctors told her it would help ward off specific complications, but she couldn't produce...

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