Women were waiting to help infants whose mothers couldn't feed them by donating some of their own milk 💗 Via Reuters
NAIROBI, Oct 22 - The five mothers sat in a bright blue room in Kenya's largest maternity hospital waiting to pump breast milk - but not for their own newborns.Antibody-rich breast milk helps premature and sick babies recover faster. Although infants benefit most from their own mother's milk, milk from donors - if safely collected and pasteurized - is a good alternative, the American Academy of Paediatrics says.
So far, 75 infants have received nutrient-rich breast milk from about 400 donors. Their mothers were either absent, ill, unable to lactate, or with substance-abuse problems, said Faith Njeru, the unit's head nurse. Evelyn Wawira thought the idea was strange when she first heard of it during her pregnancy with her second son.
But then Wawira realized she could help save a life by pumping milk for the bank while also feeding her newborn son.
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