A mother of two from Beaverton, Elisabeth Anderson-Sierra, has decided to roll out a massive 2.8 tonnes of breast milk to those that are in need of it.
Suffering from a rare condition known as Hyperlactation Syndrome, Anderson-Sierra produces about 1.7 gallons of breast milk per day. This quantity is close to 10 times what most lactating women produce.
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After spending up to 10 hours of each day nursing and pumping her milk, Elisabeth Anderson-Sierra donates the milk to milk banks as well as families that are in need.
Already, these milk banks and families in need have received as much as 600 gallons (2.5 tonnes) of breast milk from the 29 years old generous woman.
Her condition began close to 3 years ago when she fell pregnant with her older daughter, Isabella, who is now two and a half years old. Since from the time, she has revealed that she has fed thousands of children with her milk which she spends almost all her day producing and pumping.
Once she pumps the milk, Elisabeth Anderson-Sierra stores it in four large freezers for those in need. Among such are mums who cannot produce enough milk to feed their babies, those whose milk is not healthy, gay couples, and premature babies.
You can imagine the stress and labor she goes through in order to pump the milk. It is all labor for love, is how she describes it.
Speaking, the Oregon mother revealed that she “pump(s) five times a day – as soon as I wake up, after breakfast, after lunch, after dinner and again at midnight. I produce up to 0.625 gallons of milk during my first pump alone.”
“In total I will spend around five hours a day just pumping and then with storing, labeling, sterilizing etcetera, I easily spent eight to ten hours. Pumping is not fun – it is uncomfortable and it hurts – but it is my labor of love,” she added.
What makes her happy is to see the children that are fed by her milk doing good. “The milk at the milk bank goes to micro pre-emies, so just 1 fl oz can feed three or four babies,” Elisabeth adds. “I don’t discriminate – I have donated to gay couples and to mothers who are on medication or had their breast removed due to breast cancer. It’s an amazing feeling.”
At the time she was giving birth to her first child, Elisabeth Anderson-Sierra couldn’t produce breast milk to feed the baby. In fact, because the baby was prematurely born, it was through the breast milk supplied by donors that she was nurtured.
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Because of this, she was propelled to keep doing what she is doing now that she can super-produce, even though at first she feared what might happen if she went dry.
The woman finally advised that breast milk is like liquid gold as such it should never be thrown away because there is a high need for it out there.
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