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Donor Profile: Charlie, Ricky & Louise's Story
From Charlie, Ricky & Louise's Mom, Trang: This is my third baby’s milk donation. They are quite different every single time. I had...
Jan 11, 20223 min read
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Donor Profile: Zoe's Story
From Zoe's Mom, Nancy: Motherhood has taught me that it’s okay when life doesn’t always go as planned. My feeding journey with Zoe was...
Oct 19, 20211 min read
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Donor Profile: Cadence's Story
From Cadence's Mom: After pumping exclusively for my third baby, I learned a lot about myself and why my previous breastfeeding journeys...
Aug 24, 20211 min read
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Donor Profile: Colt's Story
From Colt's Mom, Jalisa: I was an oversupplier since the beginning of our breastfeeding journey. I had built up a large freezer stash...
Aug 17, 20211 min read
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Donor Profile: Amanda & Maisie's Story
Maisie was born 8 weeks prematurely, at 3lbs 11oz, and required hospitalization at two of Calgary’s fantastic Neonatal Intensive Care...
Jul 22, 20211 min read
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Happy Father's Day
Meet Edafe Edivri (Dad) and twins Edwin and Edric. "Our family lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands and we visited my colleagues...
Jun 17, 20211 min read
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Spring 2021: Newsletter
A note from our Executive Director Here we are in the spring of 2021 and COVID is still an unwelcome guest that has overstayed their...
Jun 2, 20213 min read
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Help us in our new Research Study
Are you interested in being part of new groundbreaking research which may help pre-term babies? We are researching if we can select donor...
Jun 1, 20211 min read
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Donor Profile: Arlo
From Mom, Emily: "I couldn’t be more grateful for this wonderful organization , with low supply issues , and reflux issues for my little...
May 25, 20211 min read
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Donor Profile: Katelyn's Story
"We were very lucky to have a healthy baby girl in May 2020 and I was fortunate to have a great milk supply so I started collecting and...
Apr 27, 20211 min read
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Donor Profile: Halle's Story
From Mom, Michaela: "Our milk donation journey started when I was breastfeeding my newborn second child [our eldest son] & giving my 1...
Mar 23, 20211 min read
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Donor Profile: Katy's Story
From Katy's Mom: "I did not even know that the donation of breastmilk was even possible until our youngest daughter, Katy, was born at 29...
Mar 11, 20211 min read
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Donor Profile: Allie
When I found out I was pregnant with my second baby, I was so happy that I would have another chance to try breastfeeding/nursing because...
Mar 9, 20212 min read
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Donor Profile: Gunner
From Gunner's Mom: "I was working as an Obstetrics nurse in Northern Alberta when I first learnt about this program and I thought it was...
Mar 2, 20211 min read
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Donor Profile: Jake's Story
From Jake's Mom, Claire: "Since I started breastfeeding, I wanted to donate to the milk bank. Once the pandemic hit, I was even more...
Feb 17, 20211 min read
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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...
Jan 20, 20211 min read
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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...
Jan 6, 20211 min read
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Donor Profile: Emily's Story
*Trigger Warning* This story was submitted by one of our bereaved moms who chose to become a donor - it is very raw and real and may be...
Dec 21, 20204 min read
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Donor Profile: Jessica's Story
When our twins were born prematurely in 2017, I struggled to make enough milk for them. At one point in those early days we spoke with...
Nov 25, 20201 min read
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Boobs Save Lives virtual gala raises nearly $70,000 for community care fund
Participants across Canada joined together in support of Canada’s most fragile babies On September 30, we hosted our first ever...
Oct 8, 20201 min read
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