Mothers' Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes

11/29/2025

✨ Small Business Saturday + Giving Tuesday ✨

This season, you can support local families and wear your heart on your sleeve ❤️
Check out our “Milk Is Our Love Language” shirts. Every purchase helps us provide lifesaving donor milk to medically fragile and premature babies throughout Illinois and Wisconsin.

Your support strengthens our community and makes a lasting difference.

🍼💛 Shop here: https://www.bonfire.com/org/mothers-milk-bank-of-the-western-great-lakes-inc-453994836/

11/28/2025

Big news for traveling parents. Congress just passed the BABES Enhancement Act which will make it easier and safer for families to fly with breast milk, formula, and feeding supplies.

This bipartisan win means clearer TSA guidelines, better officer training, and more respectful treatment for pumping parents. This matters for our donor families and for the medically fragile babies who rely on safe human milk every day.

Read the full blog: https://www.milkbankwgl.org/news/congress-takes-action-to-protect-traveling-parents-with-breast-milk/

Learn more about donating: https://www.milkbankwgl.org/donate-milk/

Check TSA guidance: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/items/breast-milk

We are grateful for progress that protects parents and the precious milk they work hard to provide. 💛

11/27/2025

🧡🦃 Happy Thanksgiving from Mothers’ Milk Bank of Western Great Lakes! 🧡🦃
Today, our hearts are full.

This year has been record-breaking in so many beautiful ways, and we are endlessly grateful for the people who made it possible:

🍼 Our incredible donor moms: the heart of our mission. Your generosity nourishes fragile babies and transforms lives.
🌼 Our supportive community: you show up for families, for equity in infant feeding, and for one another.
💛 Financial supporters & partners: your investment fuels our growth, innovation, and ability to serve more NICU babies than ever before.
👩‍⚕️ Our dedicated team: whose compassion, expertise, and tireless commitment keep this life-saving work moving forward each day.
🏡 Our families: thank you for supporting the long hours, the passion, and the heart we pour into this mission.
🏛️ Local legislators & advocates: we’re grateful for your work toward policies that expand access to safe donor milk.
🤍 And you , our followers, every like, share, and kind word helps raise awareness and support for the tiny fighters we serve.

From all of us at Milk Bank WGL, thank you for helping us make this year one we will never forget.
Here’s to hope, to community, and to the babies at the center of it all. 🌟

11/27/2025

💛This is our why 💛
Donor mom Kimberly reminds us what makes this work so meaningful. In the midst of her own feeding journey, she chose to share her milk so that fragile babies she may never meet could have a stronger start.
Her generosity, strength, and compassion reflect the heart of our mission: families helping families, one ounce at a time. ✨
Thank you, Kimberly, for turning your experience into hope for NICU babies across our region. You are part of the reason tiny lives grow stronger every single day. 💜

11/26/2025

Preemie milk is powerful. 💜✨
Milk produced for premature babies naturally contains higher protein, giving our tiniest fighters exactly what they need to grow strong.

We are endlessly grateful for the incredible moms who are able to donate their preemie milk. Your generosity gives fragile babies a stronger start. 🌟💛

11/25/2025

🍗🦃 We are CLOSED Thanksgiving day! Wednesday 11/26 and Friday 11/28 we have courier delivery only! 🍗🦃 Please give us a call with any questions!

11/25/2025

😁 Milk Bank WGL is so proud that one of our founders and current Board President Marissa Grossenbach has been elected to serve as a Board Member for Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA)!

We’re excited to welcome the newest members of HMBANA’s Board of Directors! 🎉

Each brings valuable experience and a shared commitment to supporting nonprofit milk banks and expanding access to safe, pasteurized donor human milk for medically fragile infants.

• Marissa Grossenbach
• Jasmine Pettis Marquez
• Misty Virmani

Please join us in congratulating them! 🎉

11/24/2025

🧊✨ Freezer Tetris Champions, We See You!

When your freezer is one milk bag away from a game over… we’ve got you. 😅💙

Donor milk pickups are available across ALL of Illinois and Wisconsin, so you can clear some space, keep the milk flowing, and skip the freezer gymnastics altogether.

Just schedule a pickup, hand off your milk, and let us handle the rest. ✔️

11/24/2025

📣 Important Milk Depot Update for OSF Saint Elizabeth

Our OSF Saint Elizabeth – Ottawa milk depot is moving! We will officially transition to the OSF Saint Elizabeth – Peru location on December 3, 2025.

To prepare for the move, our last day to accept milk drop-offs in Ottawa will be Monday, November 24, 2025. We will resume accepting drop-offs at the OSF SEMC Peru facility on December 8, 2025.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to ensure a smooth transition and continue serving families with the highest level of care. 💙

11/20/2025

💜 November is Prematurity Awareness Month, and every drop of donor milk matters more than ever. 💜 Read how one mom turned her oversupply into lifesaving support for premature babies in the NICU.

Learn more on our blog ➡ https://www.milkbankwgl.org/stories/turning-oversupply-into-lifesaving-support-for-premature-babies/

World Prematurity Day

11/19/2025

💜 November is Prematurity Awareness Month, and every drop of donor milk matters more than ever. 💜 Read how one mom turned her oversupply into lifesaving support for premature babies in the NICU.

find out more ➡ https://www.milkbankwgl.org/stories/turning-oversupply-into-lifesaving-support-for-premature-babies/

11/17/2025

💜 World Prematurity Day 💜
Today we honor the tiny fighters who arrive too soon. Donor human milk gives premature and medically fragile babies the gentle nutrition and protection they need to grow stronger.

If you have extra milk to share, you can make a life-changing impact.

💛 Become a donor: milkbankwgl.org/donate-milk/