Milk Matters

02/01/2026

Babies small enough to wear their daddy's ring on their ankle or wrist were born too soon to tolerate anything but breastmilk.

Donate your extra breastmilk so the lifeline of donor milk is available to these tiny babies if they need it.

It truly is life-saving for them!

Contact us to find out more:

info@milkmatters.org
082 895 8004

Sometimes though, a mother is not able to provide the breastmilk her baby needs – and what alternative is used matters.

01/01/2026

May 2026 be a year of good health, happiness and blessings galore for you and your loved ones.

Happy New Year from the Milk Matters Team!

info@milkmatters.org
082 895 8004

31/12/2025

A huge thank you to every donor who donated breastmilk in 2025!

You were you had never met, but cared enough about to go the extra mile and donate your extra breastmilk.

On behalf of the babies, their families, their medical teams and the Milk Matters Team, thank you!

info@milkmatters.org
082 895 8004

28/12/2025

Donors, before setting out to drop off your milk, please check with your depot whether they are open and arrange a drop-off as some are closed or have limited hours over the festive season.

You are welcome to message. call or email us to check or to find out about an alternative depot if yours is closed.

Happy holidays, everyone!

info@milkmatters.org
082 895 8004

26/12/2025

Wondering what to do with your extra breastmilk? How about donating it to Milk Matters for medically fragile premature babies in neonatal ICUs?

If their own mother's milk is not available, then donor milk is a lifeline for these little ones.

Please contact us to find out more:

info@milkmatters.org
082 895 8004

Sometimes though, a mother is not able to provide the breastmilk her baby needs – and what alternative is used matters.

25/12/2025

Happy holidays to you and your loved ones, however you are spending the festive season.

Please join us in holding the babies in the NICUs and their families in our thoughts - it is a difficult time to have a loved one in the hospital.

With love from the Milk Matters Team.

23/12/2025

Milk Matters is operating and needing donor milk throughout the festive season, so please contact us to sign up to donate your extra breastmilk or to check if your usual depot is open.

You can help in if you have more milk than your own baby needs and become a Milk Matters Breastmilk Donor.

Contact us for more information:
info@milkmatters.org
082 895 8004

NB Our office is closed for weekends and public holidays.

20/12/2025

Give the gift of life this festive season by donating your extra breastmilk to Milk Matters.

Donations are low, yet demand tends to increase at this time of year, so our stocks are under pressure.

If you are a healthy, non-smoker with more milk than your baby needs, please contact us to sign up to donate your extra milk.

You will be - tiny premature babies!

info@milkmatters.org
082 895 8004

17/12/2025

Keeping a micro-prem baby breastmilk fed in their early days of life undoubtedly increases their chances of survival.

Donate your "little bit extra" breastmilk and you will be as well as giving their mothers time to build their own supply.

Contact us to find out more and sign up:
info@milkmatters.org
082 895 8004

Sometimes though, a mother is not able to provide the breastmilk her baby needs – and what alternative is used matters.

05/12/2025

Do you need space in your freezer over the festive season and have breastmilk your baby is not going to need?

Please donate it to Milk Matters?

Milk donations are desperately low at present and we know demand tends to increase over the festive season, so we need your help to stock our freezers for the coming month.

Contact us to register so your milk can be a lifeline to a tiny preemie this festive season.

info@milkmatters.org
082 895 8004

Sometimes though, a mother is not able to provide the breastmilk her baby needs – and what alternative is used matters.

01/12/2025

Teeny tiny premature babies need your extra breastmilk.

They are at high risk of potentially fatal complications, such as necrotising enterocolitis, if they are not kept breastmilk fed in at least their early weeks of life.

Demand always exceeds supply, so if you have more milk than your own baby needs and would like to join us in , then please get in touch with us?

info@milkmatters.org
082 895 8004

Sometimes though, a mother is not able to provide the breastmilk her baby needs – and what alternative is used matters.

28/11/2025

In the high-tech world of neonatal ICUs, two of the most vital ways to care for and support the premature babies are not 'tech'.

The one is the involvement of the parents in caring for their baby - expressing, doing skin-to-skin care, breastfeeding when possible, touching, talking, loving their baby.

The second is using donor milk from a milk bank in the absence of the mother's own milk.

Milk banks and donor milk play a vital role in keeping premature babies breastmilk fed, with the nutritive, protective and healing benefits that brings.

Supporting a milk bank means supporting very vulnerable premature babies.

info@milkmatters.org
082 895 8004

Sometimes though, a mother is not able to provide the breastmilk her baby needs – and what alternative is used matters.