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Article: Hospital joins milk bank program
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2008
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MARSHFIELD, Wis. (AP) - Lenita Kluge used to store her extra
breast milk in the freezer, but as it piled up she reluctantly began
throwing it out.
Then the 29-year-old Greenwood mother found out she could donate
her stock to the Mothers'Milk Bank of Ohio, which passes it on to
hospitals and families in need.
"I helped out our daughter and then helped other children," Kluge
said.
Thirty-four gallons of her milk went to the milk bank in
Columbus, Ohio, for pasteurization. Some of it might have made its
way back to central Wisconsin, where a pilot program to use donated
breast milk has gotten under way.
Saint Joseph's Children's Hospital in Marshfield began using
donated breast milk in its ...