I wasn't prepared to give up, says Orna Kaufman-Sternreich. She was determined to feed her daughter breast milk despite a difficult birth that made it hard for her to nurse. The infant's need for breast milk became particularly acute after she was released from a neonatal intensive care unit.
The baby was not premature but had developed medical problems during birth. Kaufman-Sternreich discovered, on an Internet nursing forum, that Galit Liron, a Tel Aviv resident, had been blessed with an abundance of breast milk. Liron pumped her breasts to extract milk which was frozen for Kaufman-Sternreich's baby. "My husband traveled to her home two or three times a week with a cooler to bring food for the baby," Kaufman-Sternreich, a Bat Yam resident, relates. Kaufman-Sternreich later began to nurse on her own.
Problems of this nature are currently solved in a highly personal fashion but this may soon be different: In a preliminary hearing one month ago, the Knesset passed a proposal, presented by MK Naomi Blumenthal (Likud), to establish a breast milk bank in Israel. According to Dr. Dorit Nitzan-Kalusky, head of the Health Ministry's food and nutrition authority, Israel is one of the first nations to officially recognize the need for a milk bank of this type.
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