Last week, I wrote about Prolacta in my post Prolacta, For-Profit Milk Banks, and Predatory PR Tactics, and I received responses from Prolacta, the International Breastmilk Project (a Prolacta milk-collection agency), and a non-profit HMBANA milk bank.  You can read their responses to my posts in the comments, and each had different thoughts on my article. 

I am excited to let you know that I have been emailing directly with the non-profit HMBANA bank, and I hope to bring you a post soon about non-profit milk banks and how you can help.  There is a truly critical shortage of breastmilk in the non-profit milk bank sector, so I am looking forward to bringing awareness to that issue.

I have also been emailing directly with Susan from Prolacta, and she and I agree that there is an opportunity here for dialogue.  Having worked in corporate America for as long as I have, I know that change is only achievable through open dialogue, and I think there is an opportunity here for change to be made.  Will I ever agree with the concept of a for-profit milk bank getting their raw material for free?  Unlikely.  However, I think there are improvements that need to be made, and I hope that by talking with them, some changes will be possible. 

I will certainly keep you all updated as this develops.  If you have questions that you would like for me to ask either the non-profit HMBANA or the for-profit Prolacta, please let me know in the comments section.

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