I just thought I'd share a brief essay I wrote a few years ago about my experience of milk sharing. It's not something I publicize but the essay has been on the website for a few years and it might be interesting to some of you here. 



http://www.thisibelieve.org/essay/23718



As a postscript, I pumped for the girl for about 6 weeks, then I became pregnant with my youngest. When Ella was born, I was tandem nursing her and my son. I began pumping once our jaundice risk window had passed (as some of you might know, all of my babies had hemolytic disease of the newborn/Coombs positive/ABO incompatibility) and the baby, then 10 months old, got lots and lots of my milk until just past her 1st birthday - which coincided with my return to work.  The friends are still very present in my life and the dad still makes me smile when he says "it felt like you could feed the world." :)



Diana Cassar-Uhl, IBCLC + LLLL in upstate NY (*sigh* I was on a "no crying during Lactnet posts" streak but this one did me in!)

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