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Fundraising by the mothersmilkbank
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Would you include your registration of support for our first “mothersmilkbank” by completing the registration page...
To receive more info about the Donor Mothers Milk Bank please email me any questions.
30% of all sales is donated to the mothersmilkbank |
News
Jenny Jones To Run The Bridge To Brisbane
Following success in the Gold Coast Airport Marathon, 10k run
Jenny Jones, mothersmilkbank Lactation Consultant, is competing in the Bridge to Brisbane 10k Fun Run on September 7th 2008. to raise funds for the mothersmilkbank.
Please Support Jenny and help Australian babies have life saving human milk available to them.
Target: $10,000
make a donation here
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Mothers Milk Bank Inaugural Gala Ball Where: Sheraton Mirage, Main Beach, 3 course Gala Ball for 500 people When: 7th June 2008 Who:
Kind hearted companies donate $5,000
each For further information or to nominate your company as a sponsor please contact mothersmilkbank volunteers Renee Illes on 0410-600-308, or Melinda Parkinson on 0405-055-703 |
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Full Table Ticket - $1000.00 |
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Single Ticket - $125.00 |
Congratulations to David Alley “Iron Man completes race in 13 hours”. David raised $3,000 towards the mothersmilkbank new home.
Thank you to all who sponsored David.
The mothersmilkbank will move into a new home on May 8th 2008.
Final report will be added to the website soon
David
Alley qualifies for Iron Man Australia April 6th 2008
David Alley is competing in Iron Man Australia to raise funds, as a thankyou to the mothersmilkbank for providing the donor human milk their preterm twins needed. Become a voice in support of our internal environmental health.
Target:- $85,500 will give mothersmilkbank a home for one year
make a donation here
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A FEW FACTS: Why donor milk is so important.
• The World Health Organisation and UNICEF support donor mothers’ milk as the first alternative where mother’s milk is not available.
• Breast milk is a perfectly balanced source of nutrition. It is a living substance, more complex than blood, and it contains a variety of nutrient and immunological factors that cannot be replicated.
• The most recent UNICEF statistics show that there is a 50% increase in the onset of juvenile diabetes in children that are artificially fed.
• Artificially fed children also displayed on average, 8-12 IQ points less than children who were breast fed, highlighting the important role breast milk plays in neurological development. 8-12 IQ points less will effect your child’s life potential.
• Australia is one of a few nations that do not have a donor human milk service.
• In 1999-2000, Brazil had a network of some 150 human milk banks that delivered 215,000 litres of human milk to 300,000 preterm and low birth weight infants. By 2006, Brazil’s national network of milk banks had expanded to approximately 300, Pasteurised donor milk is used around the world for infants with failure to thrive, Cardiac patients, Infants with malabsorption and short gut syndromes, infants with renal failure, Infants with inborn errors of metabolism, Paediatric burn patients, feeding intolerance, treatment of infectious diseases (diarrhoea, infantile botulism, sepsis) premature infants and Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC)
• Preterm infants at the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth who receive mother’s milk have their recovery period shortened by approximately two weeks. The estimated cost saving for one preterm infant who is given mothers’ milk versus artificial substitutes is $18,200. In Queensland alone, 4300 preterm and 4000 term babies required donor milk during 2004.
Mothersmilkbank progress report: 2007
• The TGA is the national regulator for therapeutic products in Australia and is responsible for the regulation of medicines, medical devices, blood and blood products. Human breast milk and banked human breast milk do not fall within the definition of a therapeutic good (section 3 of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989) and, therefore, fall outside the scope of the TGA's activities.
• Human breast milk is a food and therefore regulated under the food regulatory framework, which is oversighted at a federal level by Food Standards Australia and New Zealand.(FSANZ).
• Government enquiry launched into breastfeeding and milkbanking.
Enquiry open until Feb 28th
• Standing Committee on Health and Ageing Parliament House, Canberra
ACT 2600
Inquiry into the health benefits of breastfeeding
Read the Submission Compiled By Mothers Milk Bank mothers milk bank submission here
• House Of Representatives Standing Committee on Health and Ageing Reference: Health Benefits of Breastfeeding Wednesday, 18 April 2007 Queensland visit to the Mothers Milk Bank
• August 07Report tabled in parliament. The report is now with Tony Abbott. Federal Minister for Health
“The health and economic benefits of breastfeeding Recommendation 8 “That the Department of Health and Ageing fund a feasibility study for a network of milk banks in Australia including the development of a national regulatory and quality framework within which a network of milk banks in Australia could operate. The feasibility study should include funding pilot programs at the Mothers Milk Bank at the John Flynn Private Hospital, Gold Coast and the King Edward Memorial Hospital milk bank in Perth.”
The full report can be viewed here
• The Federal Government Senate inquiry has recognized the value of supporting the mothers’ milk bank as a pilot project and recommended the mothersmilkbank receive health care dollar funding.
• July 07 The National Health and Medical Research Council have accepted the mothers milk bank request to review draft national milk banking guidelines submitted to the council.
• The mothers milk banking model will be developed further to include community based milk banks, as well as hospital based milk banks.
• The Australian mothers milk banking association will be launched in 2008
• The mothersmilkbank Information DVD to be released.
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As natural as mother’s milk, the expression says it all. At John Flynn hospital, Marea Ryan believes breast milk is so valuable it should be banked and fed to babies in need. Nadine Fisher has the story... Click here to download this latest article cover story from The Daily News |
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