Storing your milk
Tips for storing your pumped milk
- Milk storage bags are okay, but rigid plastic containers are BEST! The bags sometimes leak and can cause loss of some of the milk fat.
- The milk bank provides rigid plastic containers to our donors, and all collection sites have them available for you when you drop off your milk.
- Collect your milk and store it in your freezer until you are ready to drop off the next deposit.
- Let us know if freezer space is a problem for you – we can help with delivery and storage arrangements.
- You may store your milk for up to three months in a freezer, or up to six months in a deep freeze, before delivering it to the Milk Bank.
- Leave ½ inch at the top of the container for the milk to expand as it freezes.
- Refrigerate or freeze your milk within 30 minutes of pumping.
Need more milk storage containers? Let us know.
Austin Area
Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin – CENTRAL (Main Office)
Medical Arts Square
2911 Medical Arts St., Suite #12
Austin, TX 78705
512-494-0800
Hours: Mon-Thurs 9-5, Fri 9-1
Seton Northwest Hospital - NORTH
3rd Floor-Mother/Baby Desk
11113 Research Boulevard
Austin, TX 78759
512-324-6000 x67308
Hours: Anytime
The Women’s Center - ROUND ROCK
St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center
2400 Round Rock Ave.
Round Rock, TX 78681
Hours: 8:30 - 8:30
512-341-5322
Parking for milk drop-off is in the circle at the Main Entrance. Please follow signs for The Women’s Center. The drop off point is at the postpartum nurse’s station.
South Oaks Family Medicine-SOUTH
7900 FM 1826, Bldg. II, Ste. 202
Austin, TX 78737
512-416-0044
Mom's Place WIC Breastfeeding Clinic
8701-B Research Blvd.
Austin, TX 78758
512-719-3010
Hours: Monday, Wednesday & Thursday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed 2nd Wed of every month), Tuesday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., 1st Saturday of the month from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Bryan/College Station
Brazos Valley Community Action Agency (BVCAA)-WIC
3408 S. Texas Ave.
Bryan, TX 77802
979-260-4016
Corpus Christi
Driscoll Children’s Hospital
Mom’s Place Lactation-3rd Floor
3533 South Alameda
Corpus Christi, TX 78411
361-694-5338
361-694-4234
Hours: Mon-Th 10-4
*Please call ahead
Edinburg-The Valley
Women’s Hospital at Renaissance
Outpatient Entrance (Dove and McColl)
5502 S. McColl
Edinburg, TX 78539
Hours of operation:
M-F 9am-4pm
Contact: Gaby Reyna m.reyna@dhr-rgv.com
Office: 956-362-4405 (please call this number during business hours)
956-362-4567 (after hours messages only)
Houston Area
The Woman’s Hospital of Texas
7600 Fannin
Education Center, Suite 148
Houston, TX 77054
713-383-2895
Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30-4:30
The Woman's Place of Sugar Land
16552 A Southwest Freeway
Sugar Land, TX 77479
(Near Wendy's)
281-242-0767
Enter through the Pediatrics Entrance and stop at the desk.
Drop offs welcome from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday-Friday. Call ahead during the lunch hour, 12 p.m.-1 p.m.
Contacts: Jennifer Richardson & Frances Garcia
Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital (in the Lactation Center)
9250 Pinecroft
The Woodlands, TX 77380
Hours: Any time Mon-Fri 9-3. Call ahead to drop off Sat 10-3.
281-364-5896
New Braunfels
Christus Santa Rosa Hospital-New Braunfels
Lactation Center
600 N. Union
New Braunfels, TX 78130
830-606-9111 x6193
Hours: Mon-Fri 8-1
*Please call ahead
San Antonio
North Central Baptist Hospital
Mother's Milk First Lactation Center in the Atrium
502 Madison Oak, Suite 190
San Antonio TX 78258
210-297-4086
Northeast Baptist Hospital
8811 Village Dr.
San Antonio, TX
78217-5440
210-297-2069
*Please call ahead
Hours: Mon-Fri 9-4
Methodist Women’s Center
8109 Fredericksburg Rd.
San Antonio, TX 78229
210-575-0261
Hours: M-F 8:30-5 (closed from noon-1 p.m.)
San Marcos
Central Texas Medical Center
Postpartum Unit
1301 Wonder World Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
512-753-3842
Waco
Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center
Mothers’ Milk Bank
110 Medical Blvd. Waco, TX 76712
Donors should go through the front entrance of the Women and Children’s Hospital, and ask for one of the lactation nurses at the Mother-Baby Area. Please call ahead and someone may be able to come meet you. Office 254-202-2706; Nurses Station 254-202-2180; or Pager 254-398-2313.
Hours: 9-3:30
