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First human breast milk bank to cut baby deaths

WHO recommends that when a mother’s own breast milk is unavailable, expressed breast milk from a donor mother or formula milk is used.

While wet nursing is not a new phenomenon among Kenyan societies, the concept of pooling milk together in a bank is.

Women from religious history would breastfeed the children of other women but this would be directly from the breast. Moses of the Bible times and Prophet Mohammed of the Quran both had wet nurses.

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