In order to accomplish our mission of getting all premature infants access to an exclusive human milk diet, we must combine two things: innovative technology and holistic donor care.
We have rethought human milk processing from the ground up, creating an automated, low-touch handling system that avoids contaminants, while creating a high-efficiency manufacturing process. Our Gentle-UHT technology will allow us to go from raw material to a finished product in a fraction of the time compared to traditional processing like Holder pasteurization.
Chelly Snow
But, none of this is possible without donor milk.
“I’m passionate about women being valued for the life-saving breast milk that they bring to the marketplace,” shares Chelly Snow, COO and Co-Founder of LactaLogics. “We have been committed to solving the perceived human milk shortage, but you can’t do that without talking about reimbursement for donors.”
Currently many NICUs rely on human milk banks, which are understocked with donated breast milk from moms who are able to produce excess milk.
“It takes time and commitment to provide breast milk. Milk donors typically go through an extensive screening process, eat more, take care of their nutrition, pump, clean pump parts, catalog their milk, and then carefully package their milk bags to get it ready for shipping,” explains Snow. “We ask a lot of these women.”
As LactaLogics has developed technology to process milk, we have also been developing our holistic donor program. Through extensive research and testing, we discovered that donor moms need a human-milk processor who prioritizes the donor’s lactation needs including lactation support, supplies, donor communication tools, and financial compensation.
Snow continues, “Honoring donor moms means ensuring full transparency into where their milk is going, providing lactation support, and also offering a healthy reimbursement for their time. Getting all premature infants on an exclusive human milk diet will require all of us to work together, and I’m excited about doing our part, valuing the work donors bring.”
LactaLogics will be announcing the launch of our donor program, including the full details of our support and reimbursement program, as we get closer to bringing our product to market.
We are looking forward to connecting moms who have excess milk to preterm infants in need, changing lives forever.
