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Canadian mother-to-be Sandeep Thiara-Basi was worried about breastfeeding; she wondered if her baby would latch properly and if she would have enough milk. It turns out that Thiara-Basi actually had too much milk for her baby to handle. She switched to pumping and then bottle-feeding her milk to her baby. And because she had so much milk, she was able to donate it to the B.C. women’s Provincial Milk Bank. The milk bank accepts raw milk donations from nursing mothers, collects, screens, pasteurizes and pools it to distribute to those who need more milk for their infants than they can provide. Breast milk offers many benefits to infants, including protection against certain illnesses and diseases, and it lowers the risk of asthma, obesity, Type 1 diabetes, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), according to the CDC. Seven months after her first donation, Thiara-Basi has donated 100,725 cubic centimeters of milk, over 100 liters.
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