As a mother when you notice your baby needs more than your own milk and she or he is not adding weight as should, you do the needful

Wet nursing was always a think within communities. I remember growing up back in Kenya watching aunties feeding each other’s babies according to where the parents were and who thought if they fed from another they seemed full enough etc

This mother reached to me from The Hague and asked for donor milk. I immediately contacted my own midwives for copies of my blood tests to give this mama assurance that I was healthy and they were very encouraging too, got my test results emailed within a second of getting off the phone. I assured her I was taking my daily vitamins and eating well. My own son added the pounds pretty fast plus I have quite an over production 👇🏾👇🏾 And they were welcomed to the milk

As a mother for my second child donor milk helped us get by whilst my own supply accumulated slowly. The lady I had contact with was a healthy woman, and had had all her vital tests done. Plus her husband was a professional chef I knew my baby was getting the good stuff

My own baby drinks directly from me now and has refused the bottle. I get around 400 mls extra every day after he is fed which is stocked in the freezer. I have had to pour some out also along the way because of lack of freezer space so to be able to offer it to another baby has been a honor!

The family came along this afternoon to pick the milk up. What a cute little girl! Oh! Corona has made so many things that were one day normal so hard! We couldn’t embrace and feel what we were feeling. The connection between us, the thought that my baby’s milk was going to feed another child.. it was soo much that needed to be shared!

For now we respect the 1.5m space. She didn’t step inside my house, she waited in the corridor and I packed the milk for her. We walked (my husband, myself and our little boy) to the car, keeping distance and waved at little babu girl. Oh my goodness she was the sweetest baby I have set eyes on. And she smiled at us all 😍

The mother made us a Spanish dish as a token of gratitude and oh my! It was soo nice! 😊

After a few weeks, she sent a picture of the baby wearing my daughter’s dress that is almost 9 years old and her baby had gained weight too on my son’s milk. It was profound it made me tear up. I thought to myself.. sharing or donating milk was once something i heard others do. My 3rd pregnancy and birth was so empowering i always want to shout from the rooftops how good it was because i am sure it made a lot of things possible right through to the postpartum which is sooo much different and better compared to my previous pregnancies and births

Yesterday Thursday 16th June.. they came to get around 12 litres more because baby has refused all other milk donated to them and only accepts mine. I am therefore now their only donor. What a honor 🙂🙏🏾

Have you ever had to supplement with donor milk?

Why you give your child donor milk?

Why wouldn’t you?

I’d love to hear other people’s experiences with donor milk or why they wouldn’t go this “route” 😊