The Pettis County Health Center in Sedalia is one of the latest “Milk Depot” sites in Missouri, which means it is a community-based location where individuals can donate human breast milk.

This is in partnership with the Indiana-based non-profit, The Milk Bank, which coordinates the donated breast milk supply in Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri.

Lindsey Curry, the WIC nutrition coordinator at the health center, said the donated breast milk is used to help premature & medically fragile infants.

“If they have an oversupply of milk and they don't know what to do with it, they can bring it here to us, and it'll go to a special cause,” Curry said. “And moms, you know, that lose their babies, and they want to continue nursing and breastfeeding, they can bring the milk here to us.”

Once collect

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