Metabolomic Differences Between Mothers’ Own Breast Milk and Donor Breast Milk

Background: Human milk is nutritionally complete, is the ideal food for a newborn infant, and conveys many benefits to all infants including sick preterm infants. Mothers’ own breast milk (MBM) has many advantages as it is tailored for the mother-infant couple. Donor breast milk (DBM) has been thought to be a reasonable alternative to MBM when MBM is unavailable. To our knowledge, there have been no reports comparing donor breast milk to mothers’ own breast …