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Life-saving human breast milk <\/p>\n
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Human Milk Bank Techncians Vivienne and Tory <\/p>\n
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The Wetern Trust Milk Bank Service team <\/p>\n
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Human Milk Bank coordinators Louise McSharry & Catherine McMahon <\/p>\n
The Western Trust\u2019s Human Milk Bank \u2013 the only human milk bank on the island of Ireland \u2013 is making a fresh appeal for more donor mums.<\/p>\n
Based at the South West Acute Hospital in Co Fermanagh, the service helps to provide essential lifesaving donor breast milk for babies in neonatal units throughout the whole of Ireland.<\/p>\n
Susan Rogers, lead nurse for public health at the trust, said: “We are indebted to our donor mums who have continued to provide essential donor breast milk for babies in neonatal units in hospitals throughout the whole of Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Human Milk Bank staff are working very hard to ensure this vital service remains available to all our vulnerable premature babies as the demand for donor expressed breast milk at this time is exceptionally high.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are continuing to experience a high demand for human milk over the summer period,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year the Human Milk Bank provided over 1,000 litres of donor breast milk to units across 27 hospitals throughout Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis precious lifesaving donor milk has helped 783 premature babies, of which 223 were either a twin or a triplet.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The Wetern Trust Milk Bank Service team <\/p>\n
Breast milk gives premature and sick babies the best possible start in life as it helps build their immune system, as well as their eye and brain development.<\/p>\n
It also helps to prevent devastating diseases which can affect premature or low birth weight babies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been very busy processing requests for donor milk to neonatal units across the province and in the Republic of Ireland over the past number of months,\u201d Susan continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is essential that we recruit donors on a continual basis. I would appeal to expectant mums to consider becoming a donor and for anyone to help spread the word about the Human Milk Bank as this is the best way to help us recruit new donors!<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are also extremely grateful for the support of the Voluntary Blood Bikers, who continue to help support the transport of this much needed donor breast milk in all weather conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Human Milk Bank Techncians Vivienne and Tory <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have so many wonderful supporters who kindly help us raise awareness of our Human Milk Bank service on social media channels. This helps us to spread the word throughout Ireland of the need for donor mums to come forward to keep this vital service going.\u201d<\/p>\n
If you would like to find out more about the Human Milk Bank and becoming a donor please contact the Human Milk Bank on Tel: (028) 6862 8333 or email tmb.swah@westerntrust.hscni.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Life-saving human breast milk Human Milk Bank Techncians Vivienne and Tory The Wetern Trust Milk Bank Service team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1248,17037,5825,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-297012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-fermanagh-news","9":"tag-health-trusts","10":"tag-niamh-campbell","11":"tag-northern-ireland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114927674704345364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}