Saturday, November 8, 2008

donating milk!!!


"Hello Courtney,

Congratulations, you are now a qualified breast milk donor with the International Breast Milk Project!"

can i tell you HOW excited i was to get that sentence in my "inbox" today?? i've been going through a pretty long process to get qualified to donate milk...and it's done! (cassie, you will appreciate it)

basically, i give milk that my body just makes and this project gives it to babies that would maybe die without it! they do all the "work" for you - do a blood test, DNA test, send you materials, provide the packaging to mail the milk (well, i guess i do "some" of the work :-)) but they do the administrative stuff. AWESOME!!!

thanks for sharing, Sawyer! :-) (don't worry - he doesn't even know he's sharing - do you see his rolls?? he's eating JUST FINE!)

5 comments:

Michelle said...

That's really neat Courtney! I'll look forward to hearing how it all goes once you've been able to start donating. What a great gift you're giving.

Cassie said...

yes courtney! i remember being so excited about that email, too!! and i'm about ready to send in my final shipment. i really is amazing what these women do to coordinate everything. a great organization!! happy pumping!! :)

Julie said...

Wow, I wish I made enough, I could have used you with my kiddos since i had to switch to formula almost immediately! You are such a star!!!

Katy said...

I'd been meaning to ask you about what the latest was with this. How exciting! What a GREAT way to help other babies (and their families!)

Leighann said...

i thought about doing this when i was nursing my first two and thought of it recently when planning for baby boy's birth. thanks for sharing the link. i'll check it out.