I SUPPORT A MILK BANK FOR OTTAWA

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The Canadian Pediatric Society position statement on Pasteurized Human Donor Milk states,  "It is universally accepted that human milk is the optimal, exclusive source of nutrition for infants 0 to 6 months of age, and may remain part of the healthy infant diet for the first 2 years of age and beyond. Despite advances in infant formulas, human milk provides a wide range of benefits, due in part to its bioactive matrix that cannot be replicated by any other source of nutrition. When there is an insufficient volume of mother’s milk for the vulnerable newborn, pasteurized donor human milk should be made available, as a bridge to mother’s milk and as the first alternative feeding choice". Pasteurized and unpasteurized donor human milk.Posted: Dec 10, 2020. Principal author(s)Catherine M. Pound, Sharon Unger, Becky Blair; Canadian Paediatric Society, Nutrition and Gastroenterology Committee Paediatr Child Health 2020 25(8):549.  

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