The primary objective of this study is to describe human milk sharing practices in the US
Specifically, we examine milk sharing social networks, donor compensation, the prevalence …

Background: Human milk is the optimal form of infant nutrition. If mother's own milk is
unavailable, families may seek alternative sources of human milk through milk sharing …

Human milk sharing (HMS) is growing in popularity as an infant‐feeding strategy in the
United States. HMS families are a hidden population because HMS is a nonnormative and …

Background The use of donor human milk is rising. Maternal awareness of donor human
milk use, milk donation, and milk banks has not been well described in the United States …

Background: Feeding infants unscreened, raw human milk from a source other than the
mother may pose health risks. The objectives of the Moms2Moms Study were to estimate the …

There are limited data available about the prevalence of human milk (HM) sharing and
selling in the general population. We aimed to describe attitudes toward HM selling among …

Today in North America, there are 13 donor milk banks that make up the Human Milk
Banking Association of North America (HMBANA). These banks are located in San Jose …

Background: Lactating women in the United States have several options for what they do
with excess breast milk, including donating to milk banks that serve medically fragile infants …

Background: Peer milk sharing, the noncommercial sharing of human milk from one parent
or caretaker directly to another for the purposes of feeding a child, appears to be an …

After only six months, a commerce-free internet-based milk-sharing model is operating in
nearly 50 countries, connecting mothers who are able to donate breast milk with the …