Sorry if this has been posted already.  I saw an article on someone's blog
about a military mom in Afghanistan who pumps, stores, and sends her breast
milk back to the United States for her son!  I was so moved by this and
wanted to share the story.

Christina Harris, RN
Washington state, USA

Here's the story:

Toddler Silas Bohl gets special deliveries every two weeks from his mom
halfway across the globe, and he just eats them up.

Silas turns 1 later this month. His mom, Ginger Bohl, is deployed overseas
and sends her breast milk home from a war-torn land.
<snip>

Ginger Bohl, an Air Force captain, is an active-duty doctor deployed in
Afghanistan from Goodfellow Air Force Base. Since leaving in late August,
Bohl has sent home biweekly shipments of her breast milk, frozen and shipped
in 30- to 40-pound quantities directly to the Bohl family...

See the rest of the story at
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2008/jan/09/long-journey-for-mothers-milk/
or  *http://tinyurl.com/36z9vg*

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