Historical Research: More Than Milk: The Origins of Human Milk Banking Social Relations

Cassidy, Tanya

doi:10.1177/08903344221082674

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“…I got to provide for other babies, and then, I got pregnant again and have now two beautiful and healthy children." Human milk sharing (e.g., wet nursing), either paid or unpaid, has been practiced since ancient times in many countries in the world (38,39). Wet nurse-"a woman who breastfeeds another's child"-was considered a popular, well-paid, and highly organized profession (38).…”

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Case Report: I feel like a mother to other babies: experiences and perspectives on bereavement and breastmilk donation from Vietnam

Tran,

Nguyen,

Nguyen

et al. 2023

Front. Glob. Womens Health

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There is a growing recognition globally that care regarding lactation following a perinatal death needs to potentially offer the opportunity for maternal donation. This article discusses this experience and perspectives from a human milk bank (HMB) in Vietnam. This is a descriptive exploratory case study that has a long tradition in both the social and health sciences. Triangulated data collection involved a review of video data, interview data with the donor, and data review for the Da Nang HMB, a Center for Excellence in Breastfeeding. We found that although it is common for mothers in Vietnam to donate breastmilk to HMBs, it is less common for this to occur following perinatal loss. We offer a descriptive case study of the maternal loss of twins and a subsequent choice to donate for approximately 1 month to the Da Nang HMB, the first HMB in Vietnam. We discuss four reasons derived from this case regarding donation following perinatal loss. (1) A strong motivation to donate breastmilk when aware of the service, (2) donating breastmilk helped her deal with grief, (3) family members supported her through this tough time and supported her decision, and (4) health staff supported her decision. While human milk sharing (e.g., wet nursing) has been practiced in Vietnam, breastmilk donation from bereaved mothers has neither been discussed nor well-researched. Because maternal grief is complex and individual, deciding to donate breastmilk is a personal decision that needs to be supported, without creating guilt for those who do not wish to donate.

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Case Report: I feel like a mother to other babies: experiences and perspectives on bereavement and breastmilk donation from Vietnam

Tran,

Nguyen,

Nguyen

et al. 2023

Front. Glob. Womens Health

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“…It has been recognized that the origins of milk banking itself are derived from the scientific advancement of HM processing, and to the laboratories in Vienna in 1909 linked to the clinical biologist Theodor Escherich (1)(2)(3)(4). The first DHM service in Vienna did not use pasteurization, but instead used the most popular European method for sterilization at the time, known as the "Budde" method, named after Carl Christian Leopold Getter (C.C.L.G) Budde from Denmark, and based on original experiments from 1906 which were first published in 1908.…”

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New alternatives to holder pasteurization in processing donor milk in human milk banks

Moro,

Girard,

Peila

et al. 2024

Front. Nutr.

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Infectious and toxicological risks are the main potential hazards that operators of Human Milk Banks (HMBs) encounter and must eliminate. HMBs are trying to implement procedures that allow to manage and sanitize human milk without altering significantly its nutritional and biologically protective components, obtaining a product characterized by a valid balance between safety and biological quality. The history of human milk processing is linked to the origins of HMBs themselves. And although other forms of sterilization were used originally, pasteurization soon became the recognized most effective means for sanitizing milk: all the milk that arrives at the HMB must be pasteurized. Holder pasteurization (HoP) is the most used methodology, and it is performed using low temperature and long time (+62.5°C for 30 min). With HoP some bioactive milk components are lost to varying degrees, but many other precious bioactive compounds are completely or partially preserved. To improve the quality of human milk processed by HMBs, maintaining in the meantime the same microbiological safety offered by HoP, new technologies are under evaluation. At present, High-Temperature Short-Time pasteurization (HTST) and High-Pressure Processing are the most studied methodologies. HTST is already utilized in some HMBs for daily practical activity and for research purposes. They seem to be superior to HoP for a better preservation of some nutritional and biologically protective components. Freeze-drying or lyophilization may have advantages for room temperature storage and transportation. The aim of this study is to evaluate the advancement regarding the processing of DHM with a literature search from 2019 to 2022. The effects of the new technologies on safety and quality of human milk are presented and discussed. The new technologies should assure microbiological safety of the final product at least at the same level as optimized HoP, with an improved preservation of the nutritional and bioactive components of raw human milk.

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Human Milk Banking: A Brief Overview

Yaşöz,

Polat,

Briana

2023

Breastfeeding and Metabolic Programming

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Historical Research: More Than Milk: The Origins of Human Milk Banking Social Relations

Cited by 5 publications

References 34 publications

Case Report: I feel like a mother to other babies: experiences and perspectives on bereavement and breastmilk donation from Vietnam

Case Report: I feel like a mother to other babies: experiences and perspectives on bereavement and breastmilk donation from Vietnam

New alternatives to holder pasteurization in processing donor milk in human milk banks

Human Milk Banking: A Brief Overview

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