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A Doctor's Thank You letter to all the mothers donating milk:

"Dear Mothers
I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation, thanks and gratitude to all the mothers who have donated breast milk.
Breast feeding is not easy. You have gone beyond your call of duty and shown incredible effort, commitment, dedication and generosity to provide milk, not only to your own child but also to a child in need. You have shown that goodness can still prevail in these trying times.
You have restored hope and life, which otherwise may have been lost. We see the miracle of life unfolding before our eyes as these babies grow and develop. This miracle is realised because of your milk. The walls laced with thank you cards, smiling pictures of toddlers and children bear testimony to the lives you have saved and enriched.  
The premature infants, their parents, doctors and nursing staff thank you from the deepest recesses of our hearts. We know not your names, how you look or where you come from, but our bond is close and you are always in our thoughts and prays.
Best wishes and love,
Dr Shukri Raban
Neonatal fellow
Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa    

"Milk Matters is an amazing initiative that I am priviledged to have been involved in."


Samantha, breastmilk donor - Bergvliet

"I highly recommend donating breastmilk. Knowing that breastmilk may help to take these babies out of harms way definitely gave me a feeling of fulfillment."


Kariema (breastmilk donor) - Cape Town

"I viewed a pamphlet about Milk Matters one day and I thought to myself wow can people actually do something like that.

My daughter was eight months old, I was breastfeeding and I thought to myself I have more than enough milk for my daughter so I might as well spare some for those small little angels."


Jacky R (breastmilk donor) - Claremont

Milk Matters

Breastfeeding And The Working Mother

Continue Breastfeeding And Expressing

This is another option for moms who would prefer their baby to continue on breastmilk even when they cannot be around themselves.

There is an art to expressing, so it would be preferable to decide what method of expressing you are going to use and practice it before hand. Hand expressing, using a hand, battery operated or an electric pump are all options.

An advantage of practising this method beforehand is that you then have the opportunity of expressing and freezing milk for later use.

The principle would be that once at work you would express during the day and store that milk in a cool place (fridge or small cooler bag with an ice brick) for use the next day.

Should you not be able to express enough you could still use the previously frozen milk.

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