Traditional Human Donor Milk (HDM) is challenging because it is:

▪ Highly variable in nutrition: Human Milk studies continue to conclude the natural nutritional levels in Human Milk are highly variable.  Many factors drive this variability, including the age, health, and diet of the mother.  By default, this high variability of nutrition also exists with frozen human donor milk.  Therefore, mothers using traditional frozen HDM have not been able to know the actual nutrition (i.e. calories) in each HDM feeding.
▪ Frozen: For many years, HDM has only been available in frozen form, resulting in complexity that comes with properly thawing HDM to ensure the infant receives consistent nutrition with each feeding.”‡
▪ Not sterile: Traditional frozen HDM’s process does not achieve commercial sterility, so it does not eradicate all viruses. 

HDM Plus, however, offers guaranteed, independently-verified nutrition with the convenience and safety of a Ready-to-Feed, shelf-stable pouch.