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"Kerri Smith, BC, Canada" <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:45:47 EDT
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Our son received donor milk from a friend of ours whose baby died on
Christmas Day 1999.

The baby girl was in hospital her whole life (a month) receiving her Mama's
expressed milk, and the Mother was already donating milk to the milkbank
(only one in Canada, luckily where baby was admitted.)  When the baby died,
the Mother asked me if we would like her milk as she had lots and couldn't
afford to ship it to the milkbank anymore now that they were home and not at
the hospital in Vancouver around the clock.  We adopted our children, and my
oldest was nursing with a lact-aid and a partial supply from me.  So we were
so blessed to have her give such a gift to us.  It helped this friend of ours
alot to see that baby Sariah's milk was nourishing another little baby.  She
gradually stopped pumping over a few months so as to prevent mastitis as she
had oversupply with her other kids too.  It worked out as well as possible
for all concerned in such a terrible situation.

I also know a woman who had a horrific birth and parenting experience.  She
was raped at 13, had a baby at 6 months, the hospital refused to let her see
him, saying he would only die anyway.  She freaked out at them, snatched the
baby and snuggled him close, he self-latched and nursed for the 20-30 minutes
that he lived.  She is now in her 20's and her body absolutely will not stop
lactating.  She has donated to milk banks for years, something like 60 oz. a
day.  She has been a foster parent for high-risk infants and nursed them, has
now adopted two children and is nursing and/or pumping for them.   Doctors
cannot figure it out, as they have given her dry-up pills, bound her breasts
up, forbidden her to pump or nurse in case it is stimulating her.  It doesn't
matter.  Her milk sprays out no matter what she does, through clothes or
whatever.  Her traumatic experience and loss of the baby have caused her body
to overproduce milk ever since.

Kerri Smith
IBCLC wannabe
British Columbia

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