Donor milk for healthy newborns at a single center: trends in utilization and patient characteristics

Abstract

Purpose: Donor milk is an alternative to formula for supplementation that has documented health benefits in sick preterm infants. Our institution began providing donor milk to healthy newborns in the well-baby nursery in July, 2013, initially by self-pay and then beginning in August, 2014 with funding from an internal grant. Here, we sought to quantify the utilization trends and characteristics of mothers and their healthy newborn infants who used donor milk between 2013 and 2016. Methods: We conducted this study in the well-baby nursery …