Who can donate mother's milk?
To register to the Mother’s Milk Bank, you must meet certain criteria. Are you the profile we're looking for?
Be in good health
See the list of accepted medications and the list of natural products that are not permitted.
Have a baby that is less than eight months of age
To register, your baby must be less than eight months of age to allow for a sufficiently long period of availability to donate. Expressing surplus milk requires compassion, as well as time. You can express your surplus milk for the Bank until your baby is 12 months old.
Be nursing and have an overproduction of milk
Be a non-smoker
Live in a municipality near a drop-off point
To make it easier to pick up or drop off your donations, you must live in a municipality in the Montréal Metropolitan Community, the Québec Metropolitan Community or reside within a one-hour drive from a drop-off point.
Certain criteria may also influence your eligibility to donate mother's milk. Please consult them before going any further in the registration process.
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A bank serving a tightly knit community of mothers
Each year in Québec, some 1,000 premature babies whose mothers cannot breastfeed benefit from the generosity of mothers who share their surplus milk by donating it to Héma-Québec’s Public Mothers’ Milk Bank.
The milk donated by these mothers is tested, processed and pasteurized, then sent to hospitals where it is used to treat babies born before 32 weeks’ gestation.