I have recently learned quite a bit about the Dionne quintuplets, born in 
Canada in 1934, and was really interested to learn that they were raised on 
donated breast milk!  They were taken from their mother and raised by 
nurses.  I really thought it was unlikely that they would have all survived, 
raised on the canned milk and corn syrup formula that was commonly used 
then, so it makes sense that they would have been fed donated breast milk.  
All I have been able to find out, so far, is that mothers from the isolated 
area they were born in started sending milk right away and, after that, 
refridgerated milk was delivered every day by train.  I would love to know 
more about how that was arranged and possibly turn it into an article.  Does 
anyone happen to know anything, either specifically about the Dionne quints 
or about breast milk collection and donation in North America, in the 1930s?

Darillyn Starr

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