Watch the video here. Tribune-Review (January 4, 2016) - Katie Bentz's body was producing breast milk on overdrive — for good reason. After her son David's birth, nurses advised her to pump more milk to help treat his jaundice. David got better. Bentz began producing milk in large...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(September 1, 2015) Enough funding to get started? Check. Have a space? Check. Equipment ordered? Check. What’s missing? YOU. Yes, finally the time has come to talk about donating breast milk. You see, donors are the superstars of the milk bank. And obviously, without donors, there’d be no milk bank. Our goal...
(August 1, 2015) Our region takes care of our own. It’s what we do. Since starting this project, more than 18 months ago, we have gotten countless calls from women anxious for us to open so they can donate milk. Before we can accept one ounce...
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...
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...
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...