Twins Desperately in Need of Milk!

I would love to donate some milk to you. My twins are 10 weeks now and I have about 80 oz or so. I don't drink, smoke, or any of that. I am on zoloft, a mood stabelizer, synthroid, and claritin though. If you are interested you can PM me and we can go from there.

Best of luck with your boys and I pray they will grow out of it before long.

Hi!

I have a ridiculous amount of milk. We were expecting twins and Gunnar's brother died at 19 weeks gestation. Gunnar was born at 33 weeks, and I had to pump until be finally caught on to nursing at 2 1/2 months. My body must have had the complete opposite reaction to the pump...I have a 7 cu foot freezer full, my refrigerator freezer full and a small freezer full. I'm donating to national milk banks, too, but because I needed to take some Claritin for a few months, they were not able to accept that milk. Is that acceptable milk for your boys?

Hope you all are well.

msbobbishepard@gmail.com

I live in Boise, ID and have 200-300 +/- ounces that need to be used soon. My son is 8 months old, and the milk ranges from 1-7 months old. It is stored in a deep freezer in lansinoh bags, mostly 4 ounces each. It seems that I have excess lipase, so I don't know when my milk will spoil. Does the milk need to be allergen free? I do eat dairy products and I take synthroid daily. Otherwise, I eat very healthy- mostly organic, no caffeine or alcohol. Send me a message and let me know if you are interested.
Andrea

I wish I had enough to ship some to you...

I was thinking about my sisters situation. Her daughter was allergic to something in formula so at about 7-8 months old they put her on plain goats milk. That was all she drank. She has done wonderfully on it. My son who had a lot of digestive issues drank it until he was about 3-4 years old(while eating food). I was just thinking that you might be able to find someone there who has goats or a dairy farm and you might be able to get it before they put anything in it that would cause the reaction in the kids. Anyway I hope you find something that works.

Good luck

We are running very, very low on milk at this point and have found no local sources in quite some time so we are reaching out and ready to have it shipped in! I am going to cheat a bit and do the copy/paste bit for their story! We need to find milk ASAP as there is nothing else we have found that they tolerate well.

Rowan and Ryder, identical twins, were born at 32 weeks gestation due to an infection in the amniotic fluid weighing 4lbs 3oz and 4lbs 6oz. They were both taken to the NICU and had to be intubated within the first hour. They remained on vents, umbilical lines and of course all the monitors it looks like you are very familiar with for 24 and 32 hours. After that the were moved to cannulas and had PICC lines placed. I, of course, began pumping within two hours of birth determined that my babies were going to have breast milk and nothing else. I worked closely with the LC at the hospital, pumping every two to three hours day and night, but my milk never fully came in. I just didn't respond to the pump. Meanwhile the boys were showing an interest in nursing by sucking vigorously on their pacis, so we tried recreational nursing (pumping before) and they latched, but it was very weak because of their age. We had hoped that this would help my supply, but no luck there. We continued on with pumping and trying to nurse several times a day and never got far. They had to do 1/2 breast milk and 1/2 formula very early on. From the start there was issues. They had severe reflux that would cause them to stop breathing, rashes, and discomfort. They played with different types of formula but nothing made a difference so they remained on Neosure. Before they were on formula they had come off the cannula and were doing great, but after they had to go back on. By the time they were about 23 days old they were taking all feeds by mouth so we just had to wait the three day period without any "episodes" of apnea, bradys or desats. They had given up on getting them off oxygen for awhile, so the episodes were all that was keeping us there. Finally, due to my experience with my preterm daughter (32 weeks as well)they just let us take them home on monitors and reminded us to stimulate or turn up the flow on their cannula if they started having trouble. Talk about sleepless nights! After a few nights home I found a local lady who had too much milk so I contacted her and gave it a try. Sure enough they were acting better within 24 hours! I continued to give them as much as I could even working with multiple LC's and an herbalist. I tried all the prescriptions, herbs, and tricks out there with no luck, but didn't give up. Finally when they were about 4 1/2 to 5 months old and I was taking over 20 pills a day I got very sick. It was at that point I realized I couldn't do this to myself and my body anymore and stopped the meds. My meger supply dropped even more to mere cc's at a time from 20 minutes of pumping. So I dried up, and have been relying on donated milk since. As they get older it is becoming more and more difficult to find donations (currently 9 months). Oddly enough, their symptoms continue to get worse the older they get. We finally have a diagnosis, they have a true preservative allergy! That is the reason they cannot even take the $80/can prescriptions and believe me! We have tried every type of formula out there! As they get older we continue to try to introduce small amounts here and there, but it's always the same thing- they get hives almost immediately, break out in bleeding rashes, have blood in their stools and occasionally even get blisters in their mouths. They can't even have jarred baby food due to this, so everything they eat has to be homemade. Most recently Ryder was scooting on the floor and found some cereal my son dropped, within about 2 hours he was screaming and have red sploches all over his face and the rash came the next morning.

I won't ramble on anymore and bore you! LOL We would love to have your extra milk if you will consider us!:-)