Monday, June 20, 2005

One Mom to Another

HOLLISTON -- Kelley Faulkner is nine months pregnant and she has everything in order for her home birth.

Underpads and plastic sheets are stored in drawers next to the bed. She has ready a placenta bowl she painted at a pottery store. A hand-sewn sling she'll use to weigh the baby hangs next to the door.

She also has 14 women lined up to donate breast milk because Faulkner's milk glands are underdeveloped and her right breast can only produce a few drops at a time.

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