GREEN BAY — HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center in Green Bay says it is now home to Northeast Wisconsin’s first breast milk dispensary.
The hospital says in a news release that the dispensary is meant to have pasteurized donor breast milk available for infants hospitalized at HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center, HSHS St. Vincent Hospital and HSHS St. Vincent Children’s Hospital in Green Bay. The hospital says the dispensary will also have pasteurized donor breast milk available to the public for purchase.
All of the breast milk provided by the HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center dispensary is tested and pasteurized by Mothers’ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, the hospital says.
Amber Chibuk, Director of Women and Infants Services for HSHS – Eastern Wisconsin Division, says mothers and caretakers need the dispensary for a variety of reasons: low breast milk production, having an illness or taking a medication that prevents breastfeeding, or they may have had a child through adoption or surrogacy.
Prior to this dispensary's opening, the hospital says infants in its care who need donated breast milk would get it from a breast milk bank in Colorado.
Information about how to become a potential breast milk donor and how to purchase/order pasteurized donor breast milk from the HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center dispensary can be found at: www.stmgb.org/DonorMilk.
