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#WorldBreastfeedingWeek – Motivating moms to donate breastmilk

───   09:00 Thu, 05 Aug 2021

#WorldBreastfeedingWeek – Motivating moms to donate breastmilk | News Article

The executive director at the South African Breastmilk Reserve, Stasha Jordan, explains why breastmilk banking plays such an important role in protecting breastfeeding.

Listen to her insights in the podcast below.

Jordan's conversation with Mid-Morning Magic's Yolanda Maartens is in line with this year’s World Breastfeeding Week theme – Protect Breastfeeding: a shared responsibility. Their goal is to bring milk to babies, safely.

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In South Africa alone, 8 in 100 babies are born prematurely and 11 000 premature babies die from preventable infections and complications every year, at considerable cost to the healthcare system and with far-reaching implications for socio-economic development.

Your support will help to change a baby's future, today.

Together with donating moms all over South Africa, the SABR has saved almost 5730 babies’ lives in the last year.

She unpacks some of the other questions about the importance of breast milk donation (we’ve seen with the recent unrest that many mothers in Gauteng and KZN reached out to one another for breastmilk) and how mothers can donate and the criteria.

If you want to know more about breastmilk banking, visit the South African Breastmilk Reserve here: https://www.sabr.org.za/faqs.html

To find a breastmilk bank near you, click here: https://www.sabr.org.za/milk-banks.html


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