The current state of donor human milk use and practice

Y Bai, J Kuscin - Journal of midwifery & women's health, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Human milk contains nutrients and immune factors that promote health and growth of an
infant. Donor human milk is recommended as the best alternative for infants whose mothers' …

A descriptive study of the attitudes, perceptions, and experiences of human milk donation

K Wambach, T Bateson, P Matheny… - Advances in Neonatal …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background: The use of pasteurized human donor milk has increased in recent years due to
health benefits and rising number of infants who need pasteurized human donor milk. Little …

Care during pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and human milk feeding for individuals who identify as LGBTQ+

KM Griggs, CB Waddill, A Bice… - MCN: The American …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
The growing number of families that include members of sexual and/or gender minority
(SGM) groups requires perinatal nurses to know how to provide respectful and affirming care …

Human milk‐sharing practices and infant‐feeding behaviours: A comparison of donors and recipients

JA Peregoy, GM Pinheiro, SR Geraghty… - Maternal & Child …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of the effectiveness of four commercial DNA extraction kits on fresh and frozen human milk samples

C Butler, A Matsumoto, C Rutherford, HK Lima - Methods and Protocols, 2022 - mdpi.com
For-profit donor human milk organizations have DNA-based proprietary methodology for
testing incoming milk for adulteration with other species' milk. However, there is currently no …

[LLIBRE][B] Sharing milk: Intimacy, materiality and bio-communities of practice

SK Carter, BM Reyes-Foster - 2020 - books.google.com
The feeding of human milk to socially and biologically unrelated infants is not a new
phenomenon, but the Euroamerican values of individualism have generated expectations …

Applying feminist poststructuralism as a framework for exploring infant feeding interactions in the neonatal intensive care unit

JE van Wijlen, M Aston - Witness: The Canadian Journal …, 2019 - witness.journals.yorku.ca
Childbearing/rearing families in Canada face a variety of conflicting discourses related to
infant feeding, entrenched in a complex web of gendered, social, institutional and political …

A Paradigm Shift: Implications for Social Worker Provision of LGBTQI+ Information and Support in Human Milk Feeding

MA Angeletti, VA Angeletti - Affilia, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Human milk feeding has generally been described using a heteronormative and
cisnormative paradigm focusing on a mother and child dyad with the child nursing at the …

Collective Inattention in an Online Milk‐Sharing Community: Rules of Relevance and the COVID‐19 Vaccine

A Singer - Symbolic Interaction, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines a complete collection of posts made within two of the largest online
peer‐to‐peer breastmilk‐sharing communities in the United States, collected during the first …

Mothers who engage in long-term informal milk sharing

D McNally, DL Spatz - MCN: The American Journal of Maternal …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Human milk has repeatedly been shown to be the best form of infant nutrition. Many reasons
may prevent a family from providing human milk to their child, leaving them to seek other …