Making Human Skim Milk

1. The whole human milk is placed into tubes that have outlets at the base.
2. The tubes are placed in the centrifuge.
3. The milk is centrifuged for six minutes at 1.03Gs to obtain the required force to separate the milk parts. (The centrifuge used determines the RPMs per the manufacturer’s recommendations.)
4. When the centrifuge opens, the tubes of separated milk are gently taken from the centrifuge.
5. The “skim” milk can be removed from the tube. The end cap at the base of the tube is removed allowing for the “skim” milk to flow out. As the “fat” layer gets near the tube exit port the flow is stopped. The remaining “fat” layer from the tube is put into another container for use later.

For more information on making human skim milk, you can contact John Zabarsky at 203-262-1154 or by writing to Chester2001 at earthlink.net (email).

You’ll have to ask your doctors, but as long as my son was gaining weight and had the minimum requirement of liquid, they were happy. They even said he could be sent home with the feeding tube. My son and I stayed in the hospital for two weeks. The suspected chylothorax and then pneumonia he caught in the hospital kept us there longer than most heart babies.