Mississippi
Community Education Center (MCEC) State Street center located at 750
North State Street, Jackson, Mississippi now holds the twelfth and
latest depot location for Mothers’ Milk Bank of Mississippi within their
mother-baby room. Potential donors are asked to
first call Mothers’ Milk Bank of Mississippi at (601) 939-5504 for an
initial over the phone interview to see if they qualify. Donors are
expected to be generally healthy and non-smokers. Once approval is
received through the over the phone interview, then
approval from the donor’s obstetrician and pediatrician is needed as
well as having labs drawn at Mothers’ Milk Bank of Mississippi’s
expense. After these steps are complete, donors are approved to drop off
their donation at MCEC’s State Street Center depot
location where their frozen milk will be kept in a freezer until
couriered to Flowood, Mississippi for pasteurization.
Having
this resource at MCEC will assist donors within the Jackson community by
providing the option of less travel expense to donate. Mothers within
this community with excess breastmilk now have
an option of helping other ill infants whereas before this task would
have required time and travel. Not only this, but having a depot
location within the community will help bring more awareness to the
benefit and need of breastfeeding. Statewide, having
this depot will increase donor milk supply for all neonatal intensive
care units and thus, will lead to healthier life outcomes for premature
infants as well as reduce the mortality rate of premature infants.
Mainly, donor milk reduces the risk for necrotizing
enterocolitis (NEC) that is oftentimes fatal to premature infants.
Thankfully, MCEC’s State Street Center is now a part of this saving
process by providing Mothers’ Milk Bank of Mississippi access to more
donor moms to help more babies.
Open House
Who: Mississippi
Community Education Center in partnership with Mothers’ Milk Bank of
Mississippi, Guest Speaker Dr. Famuyide, MD, MPH,
FAAP, head of UMMC’s NICU, and Jamie Ford, RN IBCLC
What: New Mothers’ Milk Bank Depot Location
When: Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 10:00 a.m-11:00 a.m.
Where: Mississippi Community Education Center State Street Center, 750 North State Street, Jackson, Mississippi
Why: Mississippi
Community Education Center provides statewide assistance to Mississippi
families on the journey towards prosperity by 1)
closing the opportunity gaps in education, job readiness and workforce
development; and 2) connecting the paths between the needs of each
family member and the services available.
About Mississippi Community Education Center: MCEC
is a statewide, multi-generational outreach organization designed to
empower and stabilize individual family units. Organized into five
pillars (education, early childhood, families and children, job
readiness and workforce development, and youth development)
the organization strives to establish or reestablish strong foundations
for the whole family unit, from grandparents to grandchildren. The
organization offers its services free of charge.
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