Pittsburgh Union Progress (January 21, 2014) - It has taken five years, but Medicaid will now cover prescribed and pasteurized breast milk as critical nourishment for medically fragile infants in Pennsylvania....
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (January 19, 2024) - Amid the hum of industrial freezers, numerous state legislators and health officials packed into a back room at the Mid-Atlantic Mothers’ Milk Bank in the Strip District Wednesday. With cookies and speeches, they marked the passage of “Owen’s Law”...
Kidsburgh (January 18, 2024) - A new law takes effect across Pennsylvania on Jan. 20 that will help medically fragile babies. Act 32, known as Owen’s Law, will provide medical coverage for breast milk that’s been donated and pasteurized for infants whose mother’s milk is...
Latrobe Bulletin (January 18, 2024) - Medically vulnerable infants in Pennsylvania will have expanded access to potentially lifesaving pasteurized donor human milk thanks to legislation recently passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Josh Shapiro. Act 32 of 2023, Owen’s Law, takes effect this week...
Pike County Courier (January 17, 2024) - Pennsylvania. The expansion also includes a public campaign that will let parents know how to find human donor milk. Thanks to a new law signed by the governor, infants considered “medically vulnerable” will have expanded access to pasteurized donor...
KDKA (January 17, 2014) - A new law takes effect across Pennsylvania on Jan. 20 that will help medically fragile babies. Act 32, known as Owen's Law, will provide medical coverage for breast milk that's been donated and pasteurized for infants whose mother's milk is not...
CBS News Philadelphia (January 17, 2024) - Not every mother can breastfeed. But some babies are so sick, they need breast milk to survive. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's administration announced Wednesday Owen's Law will take effect this week, granting Medicaid coverage for donated breast milk, as a mother...
I remember being asked if the reason for donating was due to an infant’s death or an oversupply. I said it was the latter but really it was both. Our twin girls Isla and Zoe were born on March 15 at 25 weeks and 1...
I gave birth to my daughter Kya in April. She was born at 37 weeks and struggled with hypoglycemia during our hospital stay. In order to help get her blood sugars up; I would nurse her, pump, and offer her a bottle. Once my milk...
My son, Maverick, was born in September 2022 with some known medical complexities that required a NICU stay and early surgery. His first night in the hospital, away from me, he received donor milk. When his NICU stay extended to four surgeries, 88 days, and...