New Guinness World Record by 28 years old Mother in the United States donated 325 liters of milk to break the world record(Video)
Alicia Richman of
Granbury, Texas has been declared the new Guinness World Record holder for
"Most donated breast milk", CBS DFW reports. Between June 2011 and
March 2012, the mother of 28-year-old, one donated 11,115 ounces or pounds -
694 - from breast milk to charity, according to Guinness. In volume, which is
about 87 gallons.
Rickman certification
of the Guinness Book of World Records
Richman told CBS that
after she gave birth in March 2011, she began to pump and store their milk, and
quickly realized that it was producing more than his son could consume.
When two freezers
were full of milk expressed, Richman contact Mothers Milk Bank of North Texas,
a nonprofit organization that collects donations of breast milk for premature
infants seriously ill and needy.
Your donations have
fueled "hundreds, and probably thousands of premature babies in the United
States", Amy Vickers, executive director of the milk bank, said in a news
release.
Rickman and her
19-month-old son.
Richman said that was
for the Guinness record because I wanted to raise awareness of the cause and
encourage other women to donate to milk banks.
"I am so
grateful that I am able to help not only my own baby, Drake, but all babies who
need it and are sick," Richman told News 8. "It really feels great
and I am very grateful that I can do it".
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