Recipients

Milk Dispensation:
Milk is dispensed by prescription only. The highest priority recipients are premature and ill hospitalized infants.

Nutritional Uses:
Prematurity

Infants recovering from NEC

Failure to thrive

Malabsorption syndromes

Short-gut syndrome

Renal Failure

Inborn errors of metabolism

Post-surgical nutrition

Cardiac problems

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia

Pediatric burn patients

Medical/Therapeutic Uses:
Treatment for infectious disease (intractable diarrhea, gastroenteritis, infantile botulism, sepsis, pneumonia, hemorrhagic conjunctivitis)

Post-surgical healing (omphalocele, gastroschisis, intestinal obstruction, bowel fistula, colostomy repair)

Immunodeficiency diseases (severe allergies, IgA deficiencies)
Inborn errors of metabolism

Organ transplants

Non-infectious intestinal disorders (ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel syndrome)


The Mothers’ Milk Bank of North Texas is a non-profit agency founded in 2003 to provide premature and critically ill infants with donor human milk when their mother’s own milk is not available.

The Mothers’ Milk Bank of North Texas accepts donated human milk from fully screened, healthy, breastfeeding mothers. The milk is pasteurized, tested and frozen until prescribed.

Recipients are most commonly hospitalized and critically ill premature infants.