This is such an important and worthwhile cause!

What a fantastic idea! Mother's milk saves lives and there is no doubt the money would be going for a very important cause.

Excellent plan - I hope this gets off the ground asap so little babies have more of a fighting chance!

As a breastmilk donor, I think this is a fantastic idea! Each oz is a blessing to babies in need!

Best of luck with this noble endeavor!

Good luck! I'll blog about this to get more votes!

Good luck! I've passed this on to all the moms of the Baby Cafe! As a former donor, I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

Awesome idea, This could work . What a blessings. Continue to SUPPORT, PROTECT, PROMOTE BREASTFEEDING!!!

What a wonderful idea. As a doner and nursing mom, I fully support this an dpray that you win. Voted and passing out the email to other moms. Good luck!!

This is a wonderful idea!! Momma's milk is so special! GOOD LUCK!

I will blog this! This is an amazing idea! This cause is so needed. So many babies need this ..... Thank you!

I've just voted for this wonderful idea and will blog about it too :)

Just voted as a 3X nursing mom, La Leche League Leader and a women who cares about infants and children! Best Wishes! Jo

I hope that this worthy and practical idea gains the support that it deserves.

This is hard work, but well worth the effort. We are a community hospital and have been receiving mother's milk from the Indianapolis Milk Bank. As your project moves forward, I hope that you can find the same satisfaction in knowing that the lives and rights of our tiniest citizens are protected when they receive the food designed especially for them!

As a milk donor, mom, LLL member, and epidemiologist, best wishes for success!

I'll pass this on to those I know!

Sure hope this helps! As a mom, Grandma, LLLleader for 30+years and past doner, I would love to see a milk bank in our area again helping provide human milk for the ones who need it so desperately. JanC

I'd definitely be interested in learning more. Keep up the enthusiasm! Check out my idea when you have a chance, huyuno.com. Hopefully you'll be one of the site's first members! Cheers :)

Thanks for the info~ I hope this works~

Good luck! Will pass along the info--great idea!

Love the idea!!! I would love to donate when you get off the ground!!! Good luck.

Terrific idea! Best wishes...

Rock on! Good luck!

Good luck! This first PR blitz would also be a great time to include information on how individuals and businesses could donate time or money to this amazing cause. I know I would be willing! I am excited to see the organization begin to help babies across New England get a healthy start in life.

good luck it is a great idea

Great idea, St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton would love to take part in this!!

you've got my vote and my fervent best wishes!

yall sure are getting a lot of support in a hurry. Good luck if you really need it. Seem to be doing just fine. I understand the need of breast milk. But my wife currently uses similac on our newborn son, what's wrong with that? My little brother was also bred on it, and he's on his way to a Div 1 baseball scholarship next year. My daughter is a healthy 7yrs old and was raised the same.

What a great opportunity! Sure hope you win. LC in GA

You all have been working so hard to get this Milk Bank up & running - Good Luck!

I'll pass it on. Hope you win!

Great one!

I will definitely spread the word. Best of luck!

My Daughter was a 23 weeker and I couldnt breastfeed so this milk is what keep her alive. Tell everyone about this. It saves lives Renae

I'm the nurse/ LC and board member of the MMBNE that arranged for that milk for her 23 wkr. We need this milk bank in the New England area so many more baby's can benefit from it's bounty. Susan

To the poster who asked what was wrong with formula - many babies do well on it, however there is no substitute for breastmilk. For premature and sickly babies, that can literally be the difference between life and death. This is such a worthy cause. I just got done pumping for my daughter, and if this milk bank had been open, I'd have likely pumped longer in order to have some to donate. Good luck and I hope to be a donor next time!

i've been trying to figure out how to start one here in toronto - doesn't make sense we have a world-class children's hospital (Sick Kids') but no milk bank!? i thinik education and awareness is also critical - so many ppl think breastmilk somehow "turns off" at x months or years of age when the reality is that even toddlers and children with leukemia would reap huge benefits: their immune systems are destroyed by the treatment and breastmilk contains antibodies specially geared to protecting the child without an immune system!

I hope you win!

i am mother to 5 and i breasfed them all. i am praying that this wonderful idea wins. i am always moved when people decide to do something to help children. you are making a real difference. godd luck and God bless.

good luck, i wish in israel we would have one!

Good Luck!! I hope you win!! Milk Banks are SOO important. I would love to donate next time around...

If only you'd been around when I had to dump all my frozen milk in 2003... Good luck! This is a wonderful idea, and I'd love to see it take off.

Good Luck!!! As a donor myself I think this is awesome. I am so thrilled to see these babies get the best possible start in life.

Good luck in this endeavor. I hope you win.

Good luck! This is a great idea

This is so important- best of luck- what a worthy cause.

As a board member of MMBNE I thank-you all for your comments and support. It is important work we all do and it will happen soon. I will be speaking at the N.H. Breastfeeding Task Force conference on June 2 at Dartmouth Medical Center about the milk bank. Jane .

Good Luck!

Excellent Idea! Great work,I will forward this to all I know!

Breast is best! I hope this idea wins!

on our little island off the coast we do this all the time. How cool to make free-range organic momma's milk available on a much larger scale. peace.

This is so needed! am praying you win this one! Wish there had been a milk bank around where we were in '97 when my DD was born.. we would not have had the problems we did. Thanks for all your hard work and I hope that more people help you out.

This is excellent. I gave birth to a newborn that only lived for two weeks in 2005. However I pumped milk from birth until his passing. Hoping one day he would be strong enough to drink it. He later passed and I had no where to send all that milk that I had frozen. The hospital and I called several places and there were no milk banks in Michigan. So I was forced to throw it out. I wished that I had known about other milk banks. This milk is definitely a gift from GOD. I pray that all mothers would at least try to breast feed their babies. May GOD bless you in your endeavors to be successful.

I fully support this idea and think that there is nothing better than our breast milk for babies, especially those that are in critical condition and without their mothers. My own concern is for how much of the vital energy, nutrients, and digestive enzymes are lost through the pasteurization process. The screening component is great and necessary. Is there a way to freeze the milk promptly enough and keep it without it going bad? Would this be against health and safety standards? Probably. Regardless, this is an idea well worth developing and I stand behind it 100%!!! Thank you to those who have been instrumental in cultivating this gift of an idea.

GOOD LUCK!!

This is a great support for breastfeeding moms and adoptive moms and best for humanity. Greater access to the gold standard breast milk for infants can vastly improve the health of these babies.

This is so wonderful for babies!!!

this is a great idea for the babies.

Blogged about this and passed it on to several message boards. Best of luck! :)

How I wish this was here when we adopted our first son who was allergic to cows milk. It was a tough first year for him.

Just got this from Amygeekgrl and it's my pleasure to pass this wonderful idea on to my readers and contacts!!! Thank you for doing this!!! :) Much luck and success! :)

Banked milk is 'medicine' for premies and many other babies in the NICU whose Mom's can't or won't provide their milk for their baby. This is a life saving mission you are on and I support you heartily! Imagine a world where lactating Mom's shared their milk and no baby ever had to have artificial milk! Okay, I know that is a fantasy but it is a nice one isn't it?

Cool idea! Good luck!

Wonderful, wonderful idea! Best of luck in this important endeavor.

best wishes from a hong kong brestfeeding mom!

As a mom of 3 soon to be 4 I have breastfed all of my children as long as possible, a member of La Leche a full supporter of donating breastmilk, anyway that I can help I will do so. Keep pushing for all those little babies!!!!!!

GOOD LUCK WITH THIS GREAT IDEA.GEORGIA SUPPORTER!

Best of luck with this great cause!