Here's a truly unusual story, at least here and now.
The Mining Journal reports that Susan Goodrich died eleven hours after giving birth to her son Charles. Her husband Robbie considered feeding Charles with banked donor milk, but was told that it would be days before it could arrive.
In the meantime, Goodrich received a phone call from family friend Laura Janowski of Marquette, who was still nursing her fourth child, 1-year-old Emily. In her message, Janowski offered Goodrich to nurse Moses.
"That's when it clicked in my head," he said. "I wanted the baby to be nursed. That's something that Susan would have wanted."
One thing led to another when family friend Nicoletta Fraire of Marquette began organizing a group of women who may want to help feed Moses.
"Basically, a couple of phone calls were enough," she said. "I just had to leave my name and phone number and calls started to come in."
She also made contact with Sally Keskey, founder of the Yooper Nursers - a local breast feeding support group. Within a brief time, nearly 20 women were found who offered to breast-feed Moses. Many of them belong to the support group and had never met the Goodrich family before...
A schedule was put together with feeding times at 9 a.m., noon, 1:30 , 4 , 6:30 and 8 p.m. Six times a day a different mother has been feeding Moses for the past two months. During the night, Goodrich bottle-feeds his son breast milk that was pumped by the women.
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