Help a tiny baby in need
While mother’s own milk stands as the optimal nourishment for infants, babies born prematurely or with low birth weight require additional protein, minerals, and calories for optimal growth and development.
Your decision to become a milk provider with NeoKare can significantly impact the lives of these vulnerable infants. Your surplus breast milk plays a crucial role in nurturing premature and critically ill babies. By supplementing maternal milk with your own, NeoKare can offer hospitals a human milk fortifier, granting these fragile infants the opportunity to thrive on a 100% human milk diet. This alternative is vital as the only current option is a cow’s milk-based fortifier, which has undergone hydrolysis for improved tolerance.
Prior to joining NeoKare as a milk provider, you must undergo a qualification process. This involves responding to lifestyle and medical inquiries and undergoing blood tests to ensure the safety of the breast milk, as well as the well-being of both you and your baby.
Steps to becoming milk provider
- 1 Preliminary Questionnaire
- 2 Screening
- 3 Consent Form
4 Blood Test Screening
- 5 Milk provider confirmation
Once approved, you’ll join a community of mothers already participating in this initiative, contributing to the invaluable support of infants in need.
General Guidelines: Milk Provider Selection
Qualifying Milk Provider
Healthy lactating mother with surplus milk.
Not consistently taking medications or herbal supplements, except for specific exceptions.
Willingness to undergo blood testing to screen for infections.
General good health, non-smoking and minimal alcohol consumption.
Non-
Qualifying Milk Provider
Current or recent use of radioactive therapy or high doses of vitamins, which could impact milk safety.
Presence of mastitis or fungal infection of the nipple or areola.
Recent organ, tissue transplant, or blood transfusion/blood product usage.
Testing positive for HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Syphilis, HTLV 1&2, indicating health risks for the recipient.
- Exposure to smoking, passive smoking.
Meet Our Milk Providers
Meet our generous milk providers whose invaluable contributions have nourished countless other babies, filling our hearts with gratitude and admiration for their selflessness. Their dedication to supporting others through the precious gift of breastmilk epitomises the beauty of human compassion and solidarity.
