Lorri Walker, RNC, NP, CNM
Founder and Director

"Lorri founded South Coast Milk Bank in 2003 with the goal of expanding on her long lived dedication to breastfeeding and providing avenues for women and their choice to breastfeed. Breast milk donation Lorri is also the founder and director of South Coast Midwifery and Women’s Health Care, the oldest and most established birth center and home birth practice in Orange County. She has been active in the childbirth community since 1985 and continues to support and empower women during these precious times."



Connie Pearson
Milk Bank Coordinator » Read Bio

South Coast Milk Bank has partnered with Prolacta in an effort to provide low birth weight and critically ill infants with the highest quality human milk, focusing on the first 30 days. To read more about Prolacta and their mission, please click here!

Mission and Goal

South Coast Milk Bank is an independently owned and operated screening and mothers milk donation facility. Our goal is to provide a warm and friendly environment where mothers are able to donate breast milk, which will be forwarded to Prolacta for pasteurization, testing and national distribution for premature and critically ill infants.

About Breast Milk

Numerous studies have shown the importance of breast milk for infants, noting that it:
1) Includes appropriate amounts of carbohydrates, protein, and fat for proper nourishment
2) Provides digestive enzymes, minerals, vitamins and hormones that all infants require
3) Maintains pH levels in the baby’s gastrointestinal tract, thereby potentially reducing the risk of ailments such as diarrhea
4) Contains crucial antibodies that can help the baby resist infections and serious diseases, such as necrotizing enterocolitis, sepsis, bacterial meningitis and ear infections
5) May help prevent other conditions such as diabetes, asthma, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and obesity
While all babies benefit from the nutrition of breast milk, those in particular need are premature infants. Breast milk offers these tiny babies vital nourishment as well as immunoglobulins, or protective proteins, which help strengthen the baby’s immune system. In fact, specific antibodies against respiratory and intestinal bacteria and viruses, which are known to increase a child's resistance to infection, are found in human breast milk. Babies with failure to thrive (FTT), formula intolerance, allergies and certain other medical conditions also have been shown to benefit from breast milk.

Another little-known benefit of breast milk is that it is a dynamic fluid that changes throughout the day and throughout the course of lactation. Breast milk tastes different from feeding to feeding, which helps prepare babies for the wide variety of foods to which they will be exposed in the future.
Product Safety

There are two main elements to assuring the safety of donor human milk. These are:
Qualification of potential donors

Processing of donor milk to eliminate potential microbial contamination