A breast blight survivor organized a breast milk donation drive that has so far netted added than 4,000 ounces of breast milk for a woman diagnosed with breast blight aloof weeks afterwards giving birth.
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Ashli Brehm, of Omaha, Nebraska, put out a alarm to her Facebook followers aftermost ages for women who capital to accord breast milk. Aural one week, Brehm had calm 4,500 ounces of breast milk.
Brehm, a mother of three who underwent a bifold mastectomy aftermost year, donated the milk to Jackie Holscher, a mother of three who underwent a bifold mastectomy on Nov. 3.
Holscher, 33, of Ankeny, Iowa, was diagnosed with date 2 breast blight in May, aloof weeks afterwards she gave bearing to her daughter, Genevieve. Holscher breastfed Genevieve until her blight was diagnosed and it was no best an option.
“Breastfeeding was article that I had done with my added two kids for two years each,” Holscher told ABC News. “I acquainted devastated that that was actuality taken abroad from me. I had to basically ache a accident of not actuality able to nurse.”
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Holscher's best acquaintance and added bounded women stepped up to accord breast milk, but the accumulation bound ran low.
When Holscher, who met Brehm through a alternate friend, confided to Brehm her disappointment in not actuality able to breastfeed Genevieve, Brehm stepped into action.
"I aloof ample I can ask [on Facebook] and maybe I’ll get her a few hundred ounces," said Brehm, a blogger. "I was so afflicted aural the aboriginal 24 hours by what bodies were alms and doing, I aloof was crying. It was like some array of miracle.”
Brehm ample out locations to abundance the breast milk and best up the donations, including from one woman who was ability blight analysis herself and collection two hours from Kansas to bead off 1,300 ounces of her daughter’s breast milk.
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“I had bodies alms to accelerate it on dry ice from Canada and bodies alms freezer amplitude at altered dropoff points,” said Brehm. "It’s overwhelmingly admirable to me what bodies will do for added humans."
Brehm has chock-full accepting donations for Holscher for now due to accumulator but affairs to put out addition alarm in the New Year.
She emphasized her action was beneath about authoritative abiding Genevieve had breast milk and added about authoritative abiding Holscher saw her ambition fulfilled.
"I knew she could use formula. [Jackie] knew she could use formula. It was her ambition to accord Genevieve breast milk," she said. "Cancer does abundant to booty abroad from people, so I capital to accord her this wish."
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Holscher, who got approval from Genevieve's pediatrician to use donor breast milk, said alive that she consistently had a accumulation on duke was a huge accent relief.
"It fabricated me feel like blight isn’t acceptable completely," she said. "And the donor milk has alleviated banking accent because I don’t accept to anticipate about how I am activity to pay for blueprint and my medical bills at the aforementioned time."
Genevieve is now a growing, advantageous baby, according to Holscher, who declared herself as convalescent "better than expected" from the bifold mastectomy.
"I am absolutely afflicted because it's so heartwarming what bodies accept done," Holscher said. "When I was diagnosed, I absitively I could either let blight win and go bottomward a black aisle or I could accept happy.
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"I aloof absitively that I was not activity to let blight win and booty activity abroad from me."
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