The purpose is to deliver breastfeeding families an opportunity to supplement breast milk through the program, which opens against a set of a shortage of baby formula in the U.S., the Providence Journal reported.
“Kent Hospital’s commitment to a pasteurized donor human milk program, as a bridge to exclusive breastfeeding, will help our postpartum mothers achieve their breastfeeding goals, and ensure that our babies get off to their best start,” said Susan Bryant, lactation consultant at the Women’s Care Center.
The milk is provided by the Newton, Massachusetts-based Mother’s Milk Bank Northeast. Donor milk can be sent to the bank or dropped off at one of several depots.
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A baby formula shortage spreading through the U.S. that sparked a political crisis for Joe Biden continues to distress parents, caregivers and medical professionals as they still find the vital product hard to obtain.
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Reports of the shortage troubling intensive care units for newborns, as well as forming a black market for the scarce product, are still increasing across the U.S. media despite a concerted effort at the highest levels of government to get a hold on the crisis.
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Dr. Stan Spinner, chief medical officer and vice-president of Texas Children’s Pediatrics and Texas Children’s Urgent Care, said pediatric practices are getting phone calls from concerned parents about where to find formula and which kinds are acceptable for their babies.
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Spinner said not holding the right formula can direct to developmental issues for babies, especially for those with special metabolic needs.
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“Babies are not little people. Their nutritional needs are very different. If babies don’t get the right type of nutrition, as far as the proteins, the carbohydrates, all the various minerals, mixed in the right way, it can make babies very anemic. It can affect their kidneys. It can affect their heart, their metabolism. You don’t just simply give a young baby cow’s milk. It’s not a sufficient way of giving them their nutrition,” he said.
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Reports of babies being rushed to emergency rooms after drinking homemade or diluted formulas show the importance of proper nutrition for infants, especially those with special dietary needs.
This week, the Michigan-based baby formula manufacturer, Abbott, continued operations at a production plant that was formerly closed after four infants that consumed Abbott-made formula developed bacterial infections, resulting in two deaths.
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Only a handful of companies are accountable for the production of all baby formula in the US, challenging the power they have over an essential product. Abbott is the country’s largest baby formula producer – making about 50% of baby formula to U.S. consumers – and the plant’s temporary closure cast a wave of supply shortages across the market.
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Widely condemned as being sluggish in responding to the matter, Biden eventually invoked the Emergency Defense Production Act on 18 May and urged private companies to increase production and for more baby formula to be imported from other countries.
Titled Operation Fly, the administration’s plan even included the use of Department of Defense aircraft to transport the formula overseas in order to speed up delivery.
In May, the first Operation Fly formula shipment was delivered to Indiana and the second shipment of about 1m 8-ounce bottles was given to Virginia. Three more loads will be sent to Pennsylvania, California, and Texas this month.
The FDA announced it was also taking steps to improve supply, such as importing 33m full-size, 8-ounce bottles of Nestle’s Gerber Good Start Gentle formula from Mexico, but the production and import will take weeks.
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