HELP US AVOID FORMULA!

I just sent you a PM... Hope you get it!

I did get your PM and saw you were online simultaneously with me so I tried to send you a quick PM alerting you but by then you had gone offline. Oh well!

I just tried to pm you. It was my first pm, and I'm not sure if it went through. If it did, you probably got it twice. I've got milk to spare. Contact me if you didn't get my pm.

My name is Heidi and here is my story, posted under "Success stories" on Milkshare:

https://milkshare.forumotion.com/success-stories-f53/low-supply-mama-who-hasn-t-given-formula-t221.htm

My baby is 7 1/2 months old as of this writing. I know she is older therefore she may not qualify for first choice in many people's minds...but she has had nothing but strictly breastmilk in her diet (besides minimal solids) and unfortunately my own meager production has gone down quite a bit in the last 3 months. We have been fortunate to have a generous donor who has surpassed her needs (and we managed to get a surplus from her as well) but now she is tiring of the pumping and has made the decision to wean and feed off her frozen supply. I now make 6-7oz/day therefore if we switch to formula that will make up 75% of her liquid diet. On some days it will make 100% of her diet (and perhaps 1 day out of 7, no formula at all) since I work out of town and my daughter has to be fed 100% from whatever breastmilk we have in the freezer. Not to mention I hate using formula with the SNS device we've been so successful with. (I haven't had to use it with my daughter, but I used it with my son and HATED how it caked in the tubing!)

I will pick up as much milk as I can from our current donor on March 20th, but I'm sure she will want to keep some for her son as well.

Our donors have been from around Wisconsin (we live in Madison), but we've also had two from Iowa. I'm also willing to travel to meet someone from Illinois. We have a large deep freezer that we currently have storing a lot of meat, but my husband can clear some space out so we can take donations from anyone whose freezer is "bursting at the seams". Currently we're able to store about 1400oz in it at full capacity...but that can be expanded to at least twice that if not more if we emptied all the meat out of it.