Only a mother can know the real pain of losing her child after carrying 9 months in her womb. It just might be one of the worst things in the world. Sierra Strangfeld suffered from the same pain.
Doctor Said Sierra Strangfeld that her unborn child had trisomy 18, a rare genetic condition that causes life-threatening birth defects. Doctors suggest aborting the child. But she wants to meet his baby at any cost.
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Sierra said
“Samuel only left my arms once, when he had an oxygen tube put in, otherwise he spent those three hours with us. I was able to do skin-to-skin with him and his heart rate and oxygen levels immediately raised. It was like he knew he was with his mum. We spent those three hours looking at him. Those hours felt like minutes.”
At that time Sierra decided to donate her breast milk to another baby who needs mother’s milk.
“I couldn’t control my baby’s, but Maybe I can save others life.”
She pumped her breast milk for 63 days, from the day Samuel was born. She ended up donating 500 ounces of breast milk to the Mother’s Milk Bank in the Western Great Lakes.
Talking about the experience in a Facebook post she wrote,
“Pumping is not easy. It’s hard. And it’s even harder when you know that you can’t feed your milk to your own child.”
Salute to her for being so brave and finding it in herself to do something worthwhile for someone in need, even when she was going through the worst part of her life.
