By Katherine Bindley
March 3, 2012
Thirty women have come together with a single goal: providing breast milk to a set of twins whose mother died in childbirth last November.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that after the death of Michal Lura Friedman – a 44-year-old musician who had tried to get pregnant for seven years and then died hours after having a C-section – a network of moms started donating on a regular enough basis that twins Reverie and Jackson, have been able to drink 80 percent breast milk.
The Internet has made it easy for less formal online donation networks like Milk Share and Only the Breast to serve as breast milk-classifieds, connecting mothers with potential donors, but those participating work out the donation terms on their own. The market for breast milk is so strong, that it can go for as much as $4 an ounce, giving it the nickname “liquid gold.”
Read more at The Huffington Post.
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