My daughter's English riding teacher is a former client.  She is currently breastfeeding
her third baby.

Last week during a trail ride, one of her students noticed an abandoned baby opossum
that ten horses and riders had stepped over.  The children in her class convinced her to
take the baby opossum home.

Nicknamed "Awesome Opossum" by one of her sons, he is surviving on expressed human milk.
 Awesome is about four inches long and his eyes are not open yet.  His new mother
carries him around in a fanny pack to keep him safe and warm.  She feeds him expressed
breast milk with an eyedropper.  He falls asleep when he is full.  I gave her a
periodontal syringe to use when he graduates from the dropper.

                Only in Texas....

Deborah Ehrhardt, BA, IBCLC
Private Practice, Breastfeeding Associates of San Antonio