Roby's Story - mom regains supply and goes on to donate

Human Milk News is featuring a milksharing story every day leading up to

World Milksharing Week 2012 (Sept. 24-30)

This story (which is posted in Spanish but you can use Chrome's translate feature to read it in English) is about a mom who used an at breast supplementer when her milk supply wasn't sufficient. She received donor milk and at the age of five months her child started to refuse the supplementer but still wanted to breastfeed. She discovered she was able to meet all his needs at the breast. Then, as time went on she discovered she has a surplus and was able to donate to another family!

Roby at his mother's breast, donor milk via an at breast supplementer.

Roby's StorySeptember 5, 2012 | Filed under: Stories and tagged with: WMW 2102My story begins with shared milk natural birth of my son, Roby. I suspected that perhaps would not have enough milk for him (never produced enough milk for my first baby), but I had a natural birth to increase chances of success in breastfeeding.He grabbed the breast immediately after birth, and was nursed when wanted from that time forward.... more

Surrogate mom describes her milksharing experiences

Human Milk News is featuring a milksharing story every day leading up to

World Milksharing Week 2012 (Sept. 24-30)

A surrogate mom provides milk for the child she birthed, and has milk to spare for the child of an adoptive mom. She also donates and wet-nurses a child whose mother cannot produce milk. Read what happens when she runs into this milk baby a year later!

Tiffany ~ Surrogate Mother and Donor (Canada)
September 7, 2012 | Filed under: stories and tagged with: WMW 2012It all started with a beautiful baby girl, S. As a gestational surrogate, I gave birth to S in 2010. S’s parents and I agreed enthusiastically that breastmilk would give S the best start in life, so after nursing S at the breast for the first 8 days of her life, I committed to pumping for the next several months. So began a daily routine that totalled 3 hours of pumping time, and weekly trips to the courier depot, to ship the Liquid Gold half way across the country. But my milk came in with a fury, and I had milk to spare.

Madre de leche - hijo de leche - from Uruguay

Human Milk News is featuring a milksharing story every day leading up to World Milksharing Week 2012 (Sept. 24-30)

Milksharing in Uruguay - read about Raquel's difficulty breastfeeding after breast reduction surgery and how she reached out to a doula friend who plugged her into a network of milk sharing mamas - "madre de leche" - who gave her milk to supplement what she was able to provide from her own breasts.

Raquel and San ~ Recipient: Much More Than Milk, Much More Than Breast, Uruguay
September 11, 2012 | Filed under: stories and tagged with: WMW 2012 | EditMuch more than milk, much more than breast.
I had a breast reduction operation 17 years ago.  I was told then that I could not breastfeed (who cared!).  Our bodies are amazing and when San was born I put him on my breast and I saw that I had some colostrum.  That was it.  I was determined to breastfeed him, even if it meant seeing my mother crying by my side telling me that my baby was going to starve to death.  The truth is that after 9 days, the baby had lost too much weight.

World Milksharing Week 2012 Blog Carnival!

Everyone loves a Carnival. This year Trevor MacDonald is hosting the World Milksharing Week 2012 Blog Carnival over on his "Milk Junkies" site. Do you have a blog in you about milksharing? Connect with Trevor, write a blog, he'll host it on his site, you'll host it on yours, you'll get to put up this Carnival Participants badge on your site, there will be links to other blog posts and it'll be one big happy.... carnival!

Participants:

Milk-Sharing: Safe Infant Feeding and Being a Human - Sustainable Mothering - Jake Markus 

The Lorax and Other Milksharing stories - MatriciativismoenelsigloXXI Jesusa Ricoy-Olariaga

Winning the milk lottery - PhD in Parenting, Diana West, BA, IBCLC

Scared Milk-less - Peaceful Parenting - Lisa Van den Hoven

Overcoming Difference Through Milksharing - Milk Junkies, Trevor MacDonald

Biomedical Ethics and Peer-to-Peer Milksharing - Human Milk News, Karleen Gribble 

A Story of Peace and Healing - Normal, like breathing, Diana Cassar-Uhl

Milksharing and La Leche League - Feed the Baby LLC, Laura Spitzfaden

Supporting Families in Milksharing as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant -  Nourish Breastfeeding Support, Amber Rhotan McCann 

"I wish I'd Known About Milksharing When..." - Complete Wellness Concept, Dinnae Galloway

Waiting for Milk Banks: A Matter of Life or Death - Human Milk News, Jodine Chase 

Powerful Images: Supplementing with Donor Milk - DoubleThink, Paa.la, Paala Anderson Secor

What is World Milksharing Week - Dinnae Galloway