Breast Milk Donation to AIDS Orphans
October 7, 2006 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under breast milk, donation of breast milk
In an extraordinary program, babies whose mothers died of AIDS receive breast milk donated by South African women to the IThemba Lethu orphanage in Durban, South Africa. ABC News reported on October 4:
When the children first come to the orphanage, they are so sick and malnourished they can barely cry…. Once they are fed, they thrive on the breast milk, and within a few weeks, they are full of life. They gain weight almost immediately and don’t get sick as often when they’re drinking the breast milk.
Jill Youse, a mother in Columbia, Missouri, read about the orphanage on the Web while she was nursing her 10-month-old daughter. She …read more
