Women Cross-Nurse Motherless Infant
A group of Michigan moms have stepped up to feed a baby boy whose mom died shortly after birth.
Baby Moses Goodrich was in desperate need after his mom Susan died of a rare amniotic fluid embolism. Breast is best, of course, but the hospital didn’t have any breastmilk available for the little guy. The grieving father didn’t know where to turn.
Then he got a call from a family friend, Laura Janowski, who was still nursing her 1-year-old. Professor Goodrich made the good decision,
That’s when it clicked in my head. I wanted the baby to be nursed. That’s something that Susan would have wanted.
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But it wasn’t only Ms. Janowski who stepped up to the plate. Soon, another family friend, Nicoletta Fraire, organized a group of women to breastfeed Moses.
Shortly, there were almost 20 women who signed up to cross-nurse Moses, and they set up a schedule. The two-month-old is fed at 9 a.m., noon, 1:30, 4, 6:30, and 8 p.m. At night, Goodrich feeds him expressed milk. He is entirely impressed with these women, many of whom never met the family before they were in need.
They would do it for anyone because they believe in this. They didn’t take it lightly and they don’t miss a day. It’s commitment, passion - it’s love. It’s an act of love.
Image/Story Source: Mining Journal. (Thanks also to a Much Better Blog.)
Wow! What an amazing story. I would do this for a family any day. Insipiring.
What an incredible and inspirational story. I’ve nursed friends’ babies in a pinch and pumped for a family in need for a while too. Those women are helping that baby in a wonderful way and setting a great example of giving for their own children.
I find that alittle odd…I mean, sure its sweet…but odd.
Same with his name, Moses.
I think it’s fantastic! What a wonderful gift to give the family and Baby Moses gets the closeness and skin-to-skin he would have lost otherwise. Beautiful!
Absolutely amazing.
Really? WTF is wrong with people? The kid would not have died if he had formula.
Sure the wife’s passing is sad, but to follow that up with a cadre of women coming over to feed your child? Seems like a really odd choice.
What a perfect way to help a baby in need! What a wonderful group of women to volunteer for such an important task! Feeding the baby with what is perfect for him is such a life-long gift!
This is what we’ve been doing for most of human history, until recently. Formula is hardly natural, and you don’t get the skin-to-skin contact that may be part of the benefits of breastfeeding.
I think it’s beautiful that these women have chosen to add Moses into their lives and share their breastmilk with him and his family. What a big, wise choice from the father! (Especially in the face of criticism, which is inevitable on sensitive, “different” choices like this.)
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