Milk Bank Scotland

29/07/2025

If you have submitted a collection form please note we are not doing collections next week. We will arrange for the week beginning 11th August. Sorry for any inconvenience.

27/07/2025

For anyone interested in completing:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16JcpQkfQz/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Emily is one of our PhD students and is exploring experiences of breastfeeding support for her research.

Her PhD is exploring awareness, access to and experience of support from International board certified lactation consultants in the UK and how this might affect feeding experiences.

As part of this she is looking for mothers to complete a survey that will take between 20 – 30 minutes depending on how much you would like to say.

She would like to hear from those who:

• Are based in the UK
• Had a baby between May 2021 and May 2025
• Breastfed at least once

It does not matter whether you received IBCLC support or not. If you did there are some questions on your experience, if you did not there are some questions about your reasons for this.

The survey will remain open for the next 4 weeks from 24th July to 21st August 2025.

If you’d like to take part please click the link for further information and the survey questions

https://swanseachhs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8uGyfv2Nl3ugWZ8

There is chance to leave contact details (stored separately) to be placed in a prize draw to win one of 10 x £20 Love2Shop vouchers. Thank you!

06/07/2025

🌼 Could you help give Scotland’s tiniest babies the best start in life? 🌼

At Milk Bank Scotland, we collect and supply donated breast milk to premature and sick babies in neonatal units across the country — and we need your help. 💛

🔹 Every year, over 4,500 babies are born prematurely in Scotland.
🔹 Just 50ml of donated milk can feed a premature baby for an entire day.
🔹 Breast milk can reduce the risk of life-threatening infections, especially in babies born before 32 weeks.
🔹 Last year, thanks to incredible donors, we provided milk to every neonatal unit in Scotland — but demand continues to grow.

If you’re breastfeeding and have more milk than your baby needs, please consider becoming a donor. Your milk could be a lifeline to a baby born too soon.

✅ Free, easy collection from your home
✅ Full support and screening provided
✅ Every drop truly counts

📲 Learn how to become a donor or support our work: https://www.nhsggc.scot/hospitals-services/services-a-to-z/milk-bank-scotland/

Together, we can give Scotland’s smallest fighters a stronger start. 💧👶

Donor Human Milk - what is it? Donor human milk (DHM) is donated by mothers who have extra milk to spare. Donors are screened, including blood tests, to make sure their milk is suitable. The milk is also tested for bacteria and heat treated. Like donating blood the milk is freely donated, and its us...

03/07/2025

Today is National Bereaved Parents Day. Thank you to all our Memory Milk Gift Donors and ❤️to all bereaved parents today

28/06/2025

Thanks so much for sharing and supporting this wonderful project.

19/05/2025

Happy World Milk Donation Day with thanks to our donors and volunteers from GCHC. Donor milk is more than a life saving intervention, it supports mothers at home and in the postnatal wards. Thanks for your support.

06/05/2025

If you have donated milk and not had your blood tests done, can you please arrange as soon as possible. It is creating a bit of a backlog and we don't want milk going past the 90 day cut off.

Thanks

The Milk Bank Team

05/05/2025

Lovely video on the Day of the Midwife explaining what our Infant Feeding Advisors do across NHS GGC to support breastfeeding women

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1aQ7QKhZtp/?mibextid=wwXIfr

30/03/2025

Happy Mother’s Day to all our wonderful donors 💐💐💐

07/03/2025

Thanks to all the women who donate milk across the world

11/12/2024

If you or someone you know has a breast pump loaned from NHS GGC, please return it asap. Thanks 🙏

06/12/2024

Donors last collection will be week of 16th December. Have a very merry festive season. 🎁🎅🎄