Milk Bank

She looked into buying from a nonprofit milk bank, but at $5 an ounce, it could have cost $150 a day, or more than $50, 000 a year.

"A lot of women told me, 'I was going to give this to a milk bank, '" Conklin-Leveille says, "'but I'd rather give it to you. '"

Ward did contact a milk bank in North Carolina in her search for breast milk for Joshua.

Upstairs in an office crowded with desks piled with paper, Jones opens the milk bank's scrapbook.

The milk bank transports the milk to hospitals to feed premature or sick babies. Donors are tested for diseases before any milk is accepted.

"By anyone's estimation, there's a milk shortage, " says Kim Updegrove, executive director of the Mother's Milk Bank at Austin.

Instead, she opted to use donated breast milk from Canada's only milk bank, which she'd been told about during prenatal classes.

Georgia said: 'I watched a show presented by Kate Garraway where an American man with prostate cancer drank breast milk from a milk bank.

The milk bank transports the milk to the hospitals to feed premature and sick babies.

She wanted to donate to the Indiana Mother's Mothers Milk Bank in Indianapolis .

The milk bank transports the milk to hospitals to feed premature or sick babies.

The milk is re frozen re-frozen and sent to the main milk bank.

Women from coast to coast are donating to, or using, the breast milk bank at BC Women's Hospital in Vancouver.

The milk it re frozen and sent to the main milk bank.

After the syringes of milk arrived from the BC Women's Milk Bank (which is on the premises) and she fed Markus, he slept for five hours.

As a result, they say, they can have a far greater impact on children's health than they would if they donated to a milk bank.