Local mother makes massive milk donations
A Prince Albert mother has donated more than 50 litres of breast milk for premature and critically ill infants who are unable to nurse.
Lauren Lohneis made two substantial donations to the Northernstar Mothers Milk Bank in recent months. The first donation, made in September, was 19 litres. The second, made in late-January, was 33 litres and weighed approximately 70 lbs.
Lohneis said she began using a breast pump after her infant son started sleeping through the nights regularly.
“When our son was five months, we did sleep training with him so that he would sleep in his crib,” Lohneis told paNOW. “He ended up then going to bed so early and sleeping so many hours over the night that I’d have to pump, and he wouldn’t really take a bottle. Our freezer was so full that my husband was like, ‘you have to do something about this.’”