HMBANA believes in a world where all infants have access to human milk through support of breastfeeding and use of pasteurized donor human milk.

  • Our Work
    Our Work

    The Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA) mobilizes the healing power of donor milk by accrediting nonprofit milk banks in the US and Canada and setting international guidelines for pasteurized donor human milk. Find out more.

  • Our 27 members help mothers donate their extra breast milk for use by fragile infants as medicine. Our efforts ensure that the process is evidence-based and clinically sound. Together, we advocate for donor milk as a universal standard of care, regardless of ability to pay.
    Donate or receive milk.

  • A premature baby in the NICU may eat as little as one ounce or less in a single feeding. Whether you are a past recipient, donor, or otherwise have a story about donor milk to tell, you can help champion nonprofit milk banking. Together we can make a difference.

September 14, 2018

HMBANA has a new look. Our new website, logo and tagline are designed to communicate our core value of promoting a world where all infants have access to pasteurized donor human milk.

September 12, 2018

How to handle donor milk during Hurricane Florence.

July 25, 2018

Ochsner Baptist – A Campus of Ochsner Medical Center – is pleased to celebrate the accreditation and opening of the Mothers’ Milk Bank of Louisiana at Ochsner Baptist.