ArticleJournal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant Association2021
"Paying it Forward" - Swedish Women's Experiences of Donating Human Milk.
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- Explaining the experiences of donors, recipients, and healthcare providers regarding milk donation: a systematic review and meta-synthesis.International breastfeeding journal · 2025Pooled it
- Human Milk Practices in Swedish Neonatal Units: Results From a Nationwide Survey.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2026Article
- Human milk donation in Australia: a qualitative study of donors and potential donors.International breastfeeding journal · 2025Article
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- Understanding modifiable barriers to human milk donation in the United Kingdom.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2025Article
- Disparities in being able to donate human milk impacts upon maternal wellbeing: Lessons for scaling up milk bank service provision.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Article
- Experiences of breast milk donors in Sweden: balancing the motivation to do something good with overcoming the challenges it entails.International breastfeeding journal · 2024Article
- The effect of childbirth trauma on willingness to donate milk in women following perinatal loss: The mediating role of resilience.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Article
- Barriers and Facilitators for the Donation and Acceptance of Human Breast milk: A Scoping Review.Current nutrition reports · 2023Article
- Attitudes towards human milk banking among native turkish and refugee women residing in a rural region of Turkey: a mixed-methods approach.International breastfeeding journal · 2022Article
- An Overview of Guidelines for Supplemental Feeding of Infants in Swedish Maternity Clinics.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundHuman milk is recommended as the only nutritional source during the first 6 months of life. For preterm infants, the benefits of human milk are even more important and can alleviate the negative influences of preterm birth. RESEARCH
aimTo describe how Swedish human milk donors experienced the donation process.
methodA prospective mixed methods mail survey was designed. It was sent to human milk donors (
resultsThe infants were between newborn and 17 weeks of age when the participants started their human milk donations, and the duration of the donation period lasted 1-24 weeks. The overall theme identified was the participants' strong desire to help infants, often expressed as being involved in saving infants' lives. Many participants experienced difficulties getting the information needed to become human milk donors; for others, expressing milk required both time and energy that they could otherwise spend with their own newborn infants.
conclusionDonating human milk can be experienced as a demanding and strenuous task. Therefore, it is important that women who donate human milk receive the practical help from health care staff that they feel they need. Furthermore, information and knowledge about the possibility of donating human milk, and how important human milk is for preterm and/or sick infants, are important in order to increase the number of women willing to donate human milk.
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