Everything you need to know before you receive your first shipment
If you’re here because you’re in need of human milk for your baby, take a deep breath. You’ve come to the right place, because we’re here to help make it safe, easy, and accessible for everyone. All babies deserve the lifesaving nourishment of human milk for the best possible start in life.
Mothers’ Milk Bank California routinely distributes more than one million ounces of donor milk annually to hospitals and families across the United States. As a charter member of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA), we have helped set the gold standard for the operation of milk banking organizations nationwide.
If you would like to receive donor human milk at your NICU or Maternity hospital we recommend contacting your doctor and asking if they provide donor human milk for newborn infants. Hospitals in California must have a tissue bank license in order to provide donor human milk to patients. We too have a tissue license. Therefore we are one of the few milk banks who can collaborate with California hospitals in full compliance.
Mothers’ Milk Bank California is registered with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), accredited by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA), and a licensed tissue bank. We follow strict guidelines in order to distribute pasteurized human donor milk to hospitals and outpatient families across the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska.
Most of our outpatient recipients are premature infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), but here are other reasons that a doctor would prescribe donor milk:
Donor milk offers all of the benefits of a mother’s own milk: