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Jan 20
1 min

Donor Profile: Olivia's Story

"I nursed my four babies for a collective 64 months. It wasn't possible to donate breast milk to a milk bank until my last baby born in 2...

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NorthernStar Mothers Milk

Jan 6
1 min

Donor Profile: Carleigh's Story

"Donating milk wasn’t something I had always planned on doing... About two months postpartum I began to stock pile milk in the freezer in...

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NorthernStar Mothers Milk

Sep 10, 2020
1 min

Donor profile: Katie's story

Our sweet and rascally little Duncan was a month premature and a teeny little guy at 3lb 14oz, and was IUGR meaning Intrauterine Growth R...

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NorthernStar Mothers Milk

Jun 24, 2020
1 min

Donor profile: Hayley's story

It took us three years and fertility treatments to start our family. I now have two beautiful daughters and feel so lucky every day for t...

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NorthernStar Mothers Milk

Jun 15, 2020
1 min

Donor Profile: Mary's story

"Many of the women in many family struggled with breastfeeding for various reasons. So when I was pregnant with my first son I was mental...

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NorthernStar Mothers Milk

Jun 8, 2020
1 min

Donor Profile: Rachel's story

My last baby spent two weeks in the NICU after birth. He was fed with IV nutrition the first few days, then a feeding tube till he was ab...

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NorthernStar Mothers Milk

May 25, 2020
2 min

Donor Profile: Chenxin's Story

"Like many twins, Laura and Layla were born prematurely on 2018.10.02 and were admitted to the NICU immediately. I was fortunate that my ...

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NorthernStar Mothers Milk

May 4, 2020
1 min

Donor profile: Ashley's story

"For the first 2 months, my baby refused the breast and I was an exclusive pumper. We found out around 1 month that he had tongue and lip...

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NorthernStar Mothers Milk

Apr 6, 2020
1 min

Donor Profile: Tara' story

"I had a lot of anxiety about breastfeeding. Some of my family members had long expressed a lot of negativity and misconceptions about br...

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NorthernStar Mothers Milk

Mar 23, 2020
1 min

Donor Profile Story: Mercedes

“In March 2017, I became a part of the 1 in 3 infant/pregnancy loss statistic. I once questioned and hated the body I lived in for “faili...

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