I thought this was an interesting article. I wonder if anybody has thought
to help this woman relactate?

-- Jodine Chase

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=340783

> Breastmilk plea to save Luke
> The Belfast Telegraph
> October 8, 2002
>
> By Paul Dykes
>
> THE parents of a desperately ill 15-week- old baby boy today appealed for
> human breast milk to save his life.
>
> Luke Kelly, from Stranmillis, was born gastroschesis, with his bowel outside
> his stomach, and now has little of his gut functioning.
>
> He needs specialist feeding and is being kept alive with an artificial
> formula, but needs human breast milk for its growth enhancing properties.
>
> Mum Cara (25), said Luke was so critically ill immediately after his birth
> that she was not encouraged to express milk for him because medical staff did
> not think her only child would survive.
>
> "My own milk flow was very slow and stopped about a week after Luke was born
> because of the stress," Cara said today.
>
> "He needs human milk because it has all the nutrients and growth hormones he
> needs."
>
> Luke is being kept alive on TPN formula and a supply of breast milk from the
> Human Milk Bank, but he needs a greater regular supply than the bank can
> handle.

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