Milk Banks

It’s a big responsibility, knowing the wellbeing of infants rests in your hands. 

Mother’s milk helps to prevent necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a disease that attacks or damages the intestinal tract of infants and can lead to long-term illness or death. Donor milk can have a significant and lifesaving impact for mothers who are unable to provide enough breast milk to feed newborns.  

Milk banks provide a critical and sometimes lifesaving benefit for these families.  But collecting, processing, and distributing donor breast milk to infants isn’t an easy task. Significant effort goes into finding and screening donors. Operators of donor banks don’t need to feel stressed about the possibility of experiencing a shipping mishap, especially after so much effort has been invested.

It’s imperative to choose the right logistics partners when anxious moms depend on receiving their deliveries that will save and protect the lives of their babies. Of course, stress can inhibit a mother’s own production of milk, whereas in many cases anything that reduces stress and provides peace of mind may help her milk come in at just the right time.

PeriShip specializes in perishable and time-sensitive delivery of products, offering peace of mind to milk banks and mothers alike.  A team of expert problem solvers monitors and manages the delivery of your parcel shipments from the time the product label is produced until it arrives at the delivery destination. 

Bringing Breast Milk Closer to Home

Moms who need donated milk face many challenges. In some parts of the country, they have limited access to local milk banks. Milk banks like yours are non-existent in many rural and low-income areas. 4.1% of hospitals in the Midwest reported donor milk was unavailable, while that number rises to 23.8% in the Northeast.  Many milk banks are at least 180 miles away from the moms they’re trying to serve.

Hospitals rely on donor milk, too. Nearly 75% of neonatal intensive care units require donor milk to serve their infant patients.

Milk bank shipping is vital for the roughly 7% of Moms who need donor milk. Moms and their babies tend to need that milk for at least 12 months, and their babies must have access to a reliable supply for all 365 of those days. 

What PeriShip Does

The Human Milk Banking Association of North America dispenses roughly 72,000 gallons of donor milk every year. On-time delivery is the key to reducing spoilage and eliminating waste. It’s more important than ever to work with the right logistical provider. After all, many organizations will tell you donor milk is “more valuable than gold.”

When weather events, routing issues, or other shipping mishaps occur, PeriShip is ready to intervene and help packages arrive on-time. 

Most milk banks don’t have the time or resources to monitor and track shipments, but PeriShip can help. Our high-touch customer service team watches every box as it progresses across the country, tracking weather and identifying service interruptions along the way so we can spring into action the moment we know there’s a problem.

We keep you in the loop with text and email alerts, and give you access to your own dashboard so you can check in at any time. But you never have to—when we’re on the job, donated mother’s milk is as good as sent from the moment you place it in its packaging and arrange for shipping. 

Why Milk Banks Choose PeriShip

Our experience with perishable goods makes us an excellent choice for milk banks. Here are a few reasons you can rely on PeriShip:

• Enjoy round-the-clock customer support tailored to the needs of milk banks.
• Leave logistics worries behind. We’ll manage the intricacies of shipping while you manage donations, testing, and other challenges.
• Protect the lives of vulnerable babies through efficient and reliable deliveries you can count on.
• Maintain control with 24/7 access to shipment tracking so you can communicate with anxious moms at a moment’s notice.