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Our Mission The Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin is a non-profit organization whose mission is to accept, pasteurize and dispense donor human milk by physician prescription, primarily to premature and ill infants.

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Prescribing donor milk

Donor human milk (DHM) is dispensed by prescription only. The highest-priority recipients are preterm and ill hospitalized infants. All infants who have a medical need for human milk can obtain donor human milk by prescription. Common diagnoses include:

Nutritional uses

• preterm birth
• failure to thrive
• malabsorption syndromes
• short-gut syndrome
• renal failure
• inborn errors of metabolism

Preventative uses

• necrotizing entercolitis (NEC)
• Crohn’s disease
• colitis
• allergies or intolerance to cow and soy milk
• immune suppression therapy
• pre- or post-surgical nutrition and immunological support
• cardiac problems
• bronchopulmonary dysplasia
• pediatric burn patients

Medicinal/therapeutic uses

• treatment for infectious diseases (intractable diarrhea, gastroenteritis, infantile botulism, sepsis, pneumonia, hemorrhagic conjunctivitis)
• post-surgical healing (omphalocele, gastroschisis, intestinal obstruction, bowel fistula, colostomy repair)
• immunodeficiency diseases (severe allergies, lgA deficiencies)
• inborn errors of metabolism
• organ transplants (including adults)
• non-infectious intestinal disorders (ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome)
• intra- utero exposure to narcotics or illegal drugs

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