Summary: In the past, a wet nurse would feed and care for another woman's child if the mother was unable to produce her own breast milk. Today, breast milk donors can contribute to a milk bank available to mothers who cannot breastfeed because of illness, medications or other reasons. <a href="http://medicine.utah.edu/faculty/mddetail.php?facultyID=u0031449" target="new">Dr. Kirtly Parker Jones</a> speaks with Melanie Walcott, the Milk Bank Coordinator for University of Utah Health, about the <a href="https://www.mwmothersmilkbank.org/">Mountain West Mothers' Milk Bank</a>. Learn how donated mothers' milk is processed, and how to <a href="https://healthcare.utah.edu/womenshealth/pregnancy-birth/mothers-milk-donation-center.php">register</a> to be screened as a milk donor.
