Arizona’s First Breast Milk Donation Center Opens in El Rio
Arizona’s first human milk donation center opened its doors on Tuesday at El Rio’s Birth and Women’s Health Center. El Rio is the newest addition to a national milk bank network, and Tuscan-area mothers with extra breast milk are encouraged to donate.
Mother’s Milk Bank is a nonprofit organization based out of Colorado. The organization collects, pasteurizes, and distributes breast milk to infants all over the country whose mothers cannot provide milk.
Olga Ryan, the birth and women’s center manager, stated, “What we really want to be able to do, is give our moms a ready choice: Do you want formula or breast milk?” The benefits of breast feeding are well-established for both mother and baby, and recently doctors have found that breast milk is successful in killing drug resistant bact...