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Article: `BANKED' BREAST MILK BETTER FOR NEWBORNS.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- June 12, 2006
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Byline: Daily News
LANCASTER - While medical science has shown that breast milk is best for newborns, mothers of very premature infants aren't always able to produce enough milk to feed their babies at birth.
But at Antelope Valley Hospital, the neonatal intensive care unit has been feeding some of its tiniest patients donated breast milk and monitoring the results.
Andrea Randenberg, a registered nurse with the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, presented the data she's collected at the annual conference last week of the Perinatal Advisory Council for Leadership, Advocacy and Consultation.
``Our data shows that the use of donor ...