Wendy Cruz-Chan was 19 weeks pregnant with her son, Killian, when he was stillborn due to a rare uterus infection. But Cruz-Chan’s body continued to produce breast milk. To deal with her grief, she decided to donate her breast milk to babies in need.
"I wanted to turn something tragic into something good," Cruz-Chan told InsideEdition.comThrough her work as a doula she was able to find several mothers in her community who were in need of milk for their babies.
“I realized through donating that it gave me a purpose to do something good to help me with the healing process,” Cruz-Chan said. “It just makes me feel good seeing all the babies I’ve been helping.”
Cruz-Chan documented the whole experience on social media to help normalize donating breast milk to babies in need. In one Facebook post a month after her son died, Cruz-Chan wrote, “Some people see me pump, they ask me, ‘How old is you baby?’ It doesn’t get easier… But I try to move forward and prepare myself for people’s questions.”
A month later, Cruz-Chan posted another photo to Facebook this time looking much happier. In it, she’s smiling behind seven large Ziploc bags holding nearly 2.5 gallons of breast milk that will go to two babies in need.
Over the course of three months, Cruz-Chan surpassed her goal of donating 2,000 ounces—or about 16 gallons—of breast milk. “All in the memory of my angel baby Killian," she wrote. "A mother’s love holds no boundaries.”
