Donor Milk

Receive Donor Milk

  1. All recipient families must be currently working with an IBCLC, and must have a prescription from their HCP for Donor Breastmilk. Submit your prescription here.

  2. After the prescription is submitted, you can order milk here. Please note we ration 5 bottles per family per day. Please be careful to read all the information provided before completing your transaction.

  3. Pickup your milk on the same day as ordered. Milk cannot be shipped, couriered, or picked up on any other day than the order date unless the Center is closed.

Where Does the Milk Come From?

After a donor has been screened and blood tested through the Milk Bank, they drop their milk off here at the Breastfeeding Center. Their precious milk is then carefully packed and shipped overnight to Mother’s Milk Bank at Austin where each donor's milk is scanned by infrared spectroscopy (the MilkoScan) to determine the fat, protein, and lactose content. It is then pooled to meet nutritional needs for medically fragile babies, pasteurized, and third-party tested to ensure the absence of harmful bacterial cultures. Then the milk is then frozen, and shipped to hospitals nationwide (including some of our DC hospitals!), and once all the hospital needs are met, surplus milk is made available for outpatient use here at the Breastfeeding Center.

Because medically fragile infants and hospitals must have access to this lifesaving milk first, we cannot ever ensure regular supply for our outpatient clients, but are happy to make it available when we have it. All recipient families must be currently working with an IBCLC, and must have a prescription from their HCP for Donor Breastmilk. When Donor Milk is in stock we ration at 5 bottles per family per day to ensure we can keep milk available to as many families as possible. Both the The Center, and the Milk Bank are non-profit, and the cost for Donor Breastmilk on an outpatient basis reflects only the cost of processing and shipping as outlined above. Unfortunately Donor Milk is not currently covered by most insurance companies.


If you have questions about HMBANA procedures, or about our specific Milk Bank—The Mother’s Milk Bank of Austin—please review their websites or call them directly for the most up to date information.