Breast Milk Hero

Premature baby thrives with donated breast milk

Photo by Paul Houle

Photo by Paul Houle

Which one of us has it inside ourselves to turn our tragedy into someone’s else’s blessing?
I am not sure I would have that first on my mind, but I read a story today of a lady who did exactly that. She had been saving frozen breast milk for months, for her preemie daughter. Her daughter Lillian was born 4 months premature and suffered from a condition called necrotizing enterocolitis, where blood circulation was cut off to portions of their bowel. Unfortunately, Lilli, as she was called, died before she could use much of her mother’s saved breast milk. Lillian’s Mom said “It would have made me sick to throw it out”, so it was just a no-brainier she donated the milk to a baby also born 4 months early with the same condition and saved a babies life.

That little guy, Max is ready to go home today due to the generosity of a hurting Mom, a true Hero in our eyes.  I think Lillian would be so Proud, and so are we.
To read the complete story, go to http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/17/2157602/from-one-familys-tragedy-another.html#ixzz0wydR80ok

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