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'Why I chose to donate my breast milk'

Hatty Nash
BBC News, Derby
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Jess donated surplus milk from breastfeeding her 13-week-old son, Lucas

Soon after Jess gave birth to her first baby, she ran out of freezer space.

"I was producing so much breast milk my husband couldn't fit the food in the freezer," said Jess, a 30-year-old mother from South Derbyshire.

It was then that she found out about the option of donating surplus breast milk to a local milk bank.

"I knew that poorly and premature babies in the neonatal unit were fed with donated milk. So I thought why not give them some of mine"Floral tributes left on Egginton Road in Etwall " class="sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj"/>

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