Given we know a component in breast milk has the power to kill cancer cells, it comes as little surprise to me that a two-year old girl in Colorado, suffering from bowel disease is being kept alive on donations of expressed breast milk.
According to Babble Australia; Grace Vaught was so sick that she eventually refused to eat any food or to drink. Her mother was breastfeeding Grace's younger sibling and offered her some of her expressed milk to discover that Grace was able to stomach breast milk when she could not eat or drink anything else!
After attempting to express enough milk to meet Grace's needs, her mother went in search of milk from local lactators, Kate Tuttle at Babble reports:
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After attempting to express enough milk to meet Grace's needs, her mother went in search of milk from local lactators, Kate Tuttle at Babble reports:
"She turned to Mother’s Milk Bank, but found the cost prohibitive (it would cost $US200 a day to provide the milk Grace needs). The bank did respond to her plight with a $US1,000 donation of breast milk. Vaught then turned to her church, and through it to a virtual army of breastfeeding mothers. First, the Samaritans Ministry Christian Health Care raised $US21,000 to help buy breast milk for Grace; then, through a group called mamasource.com, women at Vaught’s church connected with other women in the area. Before long, dozens of local women began pumping a little extra every day for Grace."
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