Mom donates 500 oz. of breast milk after son dies: ‘It was a sense of healing’
When Sierra Strangfeld was pregnant with her second child, she looked forward to the hours they would soon spend together breastfeeding. Her 18-month-old daughter had a tongue tie that kept her from nursing, and Strangfeld was excited to try again.
The salon owner from Neillsville, Wisconsin, spent the next two months going to checkups, and on Sept. 5, her doctor said he would likely pass in utero in the next week. Strangfeld wanted a chance to hold Samuel, so she pushed for a C-section delivery, even though her doctor could not promise that he would arrive alive.
“It was something I could control,” she says. “I couldn’t control Samuel’s diagnosis. I couldn’t control his life, or his death. But I could control what I did afterwards. It was the last, physical thing connecting me to him here on Earth. I couldn’t save Samuel’s life, but by donating my milk, maybe I could help save another baby’s life.”Strangfeld initially wanted to pump 1,000 ounces by Samuel’s original due date, Nov.
On Samuel’s due date, Strangfeld donated her last bags of breast milk at the hospital, where they would go to NICU babies in need.
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