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Article: Mother's Milk Bank in San Jose marks 35th anniversary with fun run
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- May 5, 2009
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You're tired. Your baby is crying. And yeah. Your breasts are
probably sore.
But that's no reason, organizers say, not to join the 5K "Run/
Walk/Stroll'' in Los Gatos on Mother's Day, hosted by the oldest
breast milk bank in the country.
"We thought it would be good for mothers to get out, and get
their babies in strollers,'' said Mary Jane Vidovich of Los Gatos,
who will be pushing 2-year-old Janie Marie at Vasona Park to get the
word out about the benefits of breast milk for newborns.
Vidovich is a runner, a driving force behind the event, and a
proud "10-gallon'' mom, who has donated just that much in breast
milk to the Mother's Milk Bank at Valley Medical Center in San Jose -
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