Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Milk of human kindness (Naples Daily News)

Breast-milk bank in Southwest Florida helping mothers and babies all over the country


Got milk? Ashley Rodriguez does, and she’s giving it away.

The 30-year-old who gave birth four months ago to daughter Chloe donates extra breast milk to the Family Birth Center of Fort Myers.

Rodriguez is one of hundreds of women nationwide who donate milk to mothers who cannot produce their own, specifically in the case of mothers who’ve given birth to premature babies that specific nutritional needs.


click to read more...

1 comment:

Ali said...

It bears noting that the milk bank profiled is a Proclata company.

Prolcata takes the donated milk and sells it for their own personal profit.

If you are considering donating breastmilk, bless you - please donate to a non-profit milk bank.