Sarita, 28, was shattered when her obstetrician placed her newly-born daughter in her arms at a maternity hospital in the town of Nagda in the desert state of Rajasthan. The girl weighed 1 kilogram, less than half what a normal infant should, and in grave danger of being blighted by malnutrition if not of death.
The hospital advised Sarita, whose severe anemia prevented her from breastfeeding, to draw milk from a milk bank in Udaipur, some 22 km away. Sarita and her husband wrapped their baby in a shawl and took the first bus to the Divya Mothers Milk Bank. The frail child was admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit, fed milk and saved.
“Human milk for underweight newborns is like an infusion of fresh blood for accident victims,” said Rohilla Parker, a senior nutritionist at Fortis Hotel, Noida, in Uttar Pradesh. “It not only rescues them from certain death when their mothers can’t lactate, but also provides immunization to ward off life-threatening ailments and infections. It is superfood for newborns, the most effective when a baby is breastfed immediately after birth and exclusively for the first six months.”
On April 6, India’s 17th human milk bank was inaugurated in Rajasthan, the state’s second, appropriately named Jeevan Dhara [lifeline] in collaboration with the Norwegian government. Like all such institutions, the bank will collect excess breast milk from lactating mothers, pasteurize and preserve it and channel it to infants in desperate need. Full story...
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The hospital advised Sarita, whose severe anemia prevented her from breastfeeding, to draw milk from a milk bank in Udaipur, some 22 km away. Sarita and her husband wrapped their baby in a shawl and took the first bus to the Divya Mothers Milk Bank. The frail child was admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit, fed milk and saved.
“Human milk for underweight newborns is like an infusion of fresh blood for accident victims,” said Rohilla Parker, a senior nutritionist at Fortis Hotel, Noida, in Uttar Pradesh. “It not only rescues them from certain death when their mothers can’t lactate, but also provides immunization to ward off life-threatening ailments and infections. It is superfood for newborns, the most effective when a baby is breastfed immediately after birth and exclusively for the first six months.”
On April 6, India’s 17th human milk bank was inaugurated in Rajasthan, the state’s second, appropriately named Jeevan Dhara [lifeline] in collaboration with the Norwegian government. Like all such institutions, the bank will collect excess breast milk from lactating mothers, pasteurize and preserve it and channel it to infants in desperate need. Full story...
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