More than a half million babies in the United States - that's 1 in every 8 - are born premature each year.1

Making a Difference in the lives of premature infants

These preemies are often at risk for a number of life-threatening complications including Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC). One of the biggest hurdles these babies face is receiving enough calories and protein to develop and survive. By making the decision to donate your excess breast milk, you could have a significant impact on the lives of these infants and their families.

Milkbanking.net has been designed to aid healthy lactating women locate a donor milk bank for the purpose of breast milk donation. Donations of extra breast milk will be used to make nutritional formulations by Prolacta Bioscience® and sold to hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). These products provide enhanced nutritional support required for very low birth weight, critically ill, premature infants.

In conjunction with Prolacta Bioscience®, the goal of milkbanking.net is to provide an opportunity for all qualified donors across the contiguous United States to donate their excess milk by making the donation process convenient and confidential.



All milk banks within the Milkbanking.net system abide by HIPAA regulations and makes certain that all private information is kept secure.

1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://www.cdc.gov/Features/PrematureBirth/

Featured Milk Bank

University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview
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The Milk Bank at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview and University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital is a partnership between Fairview's Birth and Family Education department and Prolacta Bioscience, Inc. The milk bank is focused on the health of preterm and sick infants in neonatal intensive care units around the country. It offers nursing mothers with extra breast milk the opportunity to give a gift that makes a life-saving difference, and in turn it supports Fairview's efforts to promote successful breastfeeding for families and their babies. Milk collected by the Milk Bank is sent to Prolacta to make human milk-based nutritional products for premature infants hospitalized in neonatal intensive care units. It is a Prolacta-affiliated milk bank and is responsible for donor recruitment, donor qualification and milk collection. Prolacta is responsible for milk testing and processing into nutritional formulations.