The Wirral Mother’s Milk Bank

The Wirral Mother’s Milk Bank

A Milk Bank on Wirral will give premature and sick babies the chance to have the gift of vital drops of mothers’ milk - even if their own mums are too ill to feed them.

Mothers’ milk is incredibly complex, and try as they might,

scientists cannot copy it.

Because it is designed by Nature for new, fragile babies, mothers’ milk is full of nutrients and antibodies, and just right for tiny babies to digest.

Nowadays, tiny babies weighing just over one pound (little more than a tin of soup) can survive. They receive a lot of help from skilled medical staff and 21st century equipment, but the natural miracle of mothers’ milk can still make all the difference.

There are 10 Milk Banks in the South-East, but only one in the whole of the North of England!. It cannot always spare milk.

That is why it is so important for Wirral to have its own Milk Bank.

The Wirral Mothers’ Milk Bank will:

accept extra milk that mothers cannot use
screen all donors and pasteurise donated milk
aim to offer mothers’ milk to every sick and premature baby on Wirral
save babies’ lives and safeguard babies’ health
give mothers’ milk to babies who are fighting for their lives, so they can be fed the precious life-saving drops to set them on the road to a healthy life.