I just finished reading Trish Whitehouse's article about her efforts to provide "skim" breastmilk for her son.  I urge everyone who hasn't to read it -- You can't help but be positively inspired by the lengths to which she and her husband went for her ill baby.  I have a new level of appreciation for having had the privilege of 5 and 1/2 years (so far!) of relatively problem-free breastfeeding and healthy children.  Trish, thanks so much for sharing...

Julie Rosen
LLLL, New Jersey

Trish wrote:

First, my son Bobby is doing well, still doing his licking thing at the breast, not more, not less, and it's all OK with me.  Sometimes I'll spray milk all over his face, some of it goes in his mouth, and he'll just crack up, along with the other kids.  It's great fun!  For anyone who doesn't
know the story behind what happened to him, and is interested, someone much more computer literate than I make a link with his story, so now it is easier to access.  (For those of you who don't know, he had a chylothorax
after open heart surgery, and we had to make skim breastmilk.  This is the story of how we were able to do that.)

 http://web3.foxinternet.com/lglessner/bobby.pdf



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