2023 was a record-breaking year for human milk donations in Northern BC! Staff working in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the University Hospital of Northern BC (UHNBC) in Prince George are...
“I’d like to send my milk on the bus.” Wait. What? You may have heard of the human milk bank in Vancouver. You may also know about the human milk collection depot in Prince George (PG). Bu...
Have you heard about hand expressing milk in pregnancy (also known as “antenatal milk expression”)? It can help to get breastfeeding off to a good start and is an option for most low-risk pregnanc...
January 27 is World Breast Pumping Day, a day to share stories to help acknowledge and celebrate breast milk pumping and human milk feeding. Today, we hear from Jessie King, an assistant professor of ...
Pasteurized donor human milk (PDHM) is life-saving for babies who are born prematurely. As World Prematurity Day nears, I’d like to highlight the need for breast milk donations to feed these and oth...
Breastfeeding has been a special way for me to understand and satisfy the needs of my two children. When I was pregnant with my second child, I wondered what it would be like to breastfeed both childr...
Did you know that there are four human milk banks in Canada? We are lucky to have one in BC: the BC Women’s Provincial Milk Bank, in Vancouver. This milk bank provides screened, pasteurized donor br...
