Watch the Digital Desk segment with CHKD in the video player.
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The King’s Daughters Milk Bank at CHKD provides pasteurized donor milk to premature and critically-ill infants.
The nonprofit, hospital-based donor milk bank celebrated their 10-year anniversary this summer.
“It’s the first and only milk bank in Virginia,” said director Ashlynn Baker, RN, IBCLC.
Since opening its doors in 2014, Baker said more than 4.1 million ounces of milk have been donated.
At the Digital Desk, Baker discussed the milk bank, the importance of milk for these babies and the need for donors. Watch the segment in the video player on this page.
Prior to being the director, Baker worked in the neonatal units. At the milk bank, she’s helping babies in a different way, but holds her experience close.
“It’s a wonderful way as a previous NICU nurse, and always a NICU nurse at heart, to know I’m still having a hand in helping our nation’s most vulnerable infants to survive and thrive,” Baker said.