Special delivery is a first for St. Vincent (Toledo Blade)

In January, Brenda Canada became the first woman in Ohio to donate breast milk to the Mothers' Milk Bank of Ohio.

Yesterday she volunteered for another first.

Lugging three coolers, she, her husband, Mike, and her 5-year-old son, Andrew, arrived at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo to pick up milk donated by other mothers and deliver it to the milk bank in Columbus.

The pickup and delivery are the first for St. Vincent, which earlier this month became the only drop-off point in Ohio for donated breast milk other than the milk bank in Columbus.

Ms. Canada of Stryker, Ohio, agreed to make the delivery to Columbus "because they needed help. Whatever they need, I'm prepared to do it."

Human milk banks are rare, though interest in them is growing. Ohio's, based at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, is one of eight in the country.



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