eats on feets

Sunday, July 27 2025

15 Years of Community!

Marking 15 years of community-based milksharing with stories of recipients, donors, and angel babies. Thank you for sharing them with us!

Some of our Wonderful Recipients

My name is Jazmin. I got with this community 4 years ago. My sons Winslow and Huntley have benefit from this community since Winslow was 6months old! I dried up at the surprise pregnancy of Huntley! Then when Huntley was born late preemie at 36 weeks we were back on the community to help build a stock to supply a new born and 17month old! I don't know what I'd do without this community and the mommies that are a part of it! I will always be so grateful! Both my boys were able to make it to 2 years,I will also add that due to the help we got Huntley safely through a positive COVID at only 10 days old!

Jazmin

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I had a mastectomy a few years before my kid was born, and was still able to get him to 10 months exclusively breast milk fed. My new baby is almost 8 months, and she's been maybe 75% donor fed. Very grateful for all the donor parents who got both of them there! (And as a non-binary person, I love that this page makes sure to include me.)

Ryden

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My baby was born 5lbs 12oz at 38w 4days and I had not started producing any milk even though the plan was to exclusively breastfeed. At birth my baby girl latched very well right away and for the 2 nights we were at the hospital she breastfed. Milk started coming in very slowly.

Meanwhile the hospital supplemented with donor human milk. When I was leaving they suggested to supplement with formula and although I was heartbroken, I know fed is best so I had hubby get all our samples ready so we could try.

I came to Facebook looking for human milk and both times I asked, I got at least 2 responses back with donor milk. Oh my heart! There are women out here pumping milk and giving it away for free! I pray for you all daily in whichever journey you are on and send blessings your way. You are truly making a difference! 💝💝💝

I finally found a long term donor who continues to cover me now and my Ama is 5 months old.

Lofiel

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12 1/2 years ago, when my son was 7 months old, I found out I was pregnant again. My milk started drying up. He had a dairy allergy and refused soy formula. I looked to buy breast milk but with 4 kids and one on the way I didn’t have that kind of funds. When they say this is liquid gold, it is!!

I went back home to visit friends and my son was living on what little I produced, juice, water, sweet potatoes oatmeal and he was miserable. He had Eczema & was having diarrhea daily. My friend gifted me her stash of milk and said this is how I help the community. I was like excuse me lol She said yes through eats on feets Louisiana. I bet NC had one too. I searched and they did! I got back home with her stash on dry ice, made a post and two people later I had enough to support him till he was a little over a year. His stomach healed, his skin was beautiful and my baby was so happy. I will be forever grateful for Eats on Feets and I would recommend to anyone!

Megan

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Our families story began twelve years ago as a first-time mum, having a baby born at 32 weeks, a very low breast milk supply, and an IGT diagnosis. As we prepared for discharge eight weeks later, we were told that my little one no longer qualified for donor milk from the milk bank, and we had to transition to formula before discharge. I called out for advice and support in my local community, and my community rallied to our aid, offering their extra milk and recommending that I visit the Eats on Feets website to become informed about community milksharing. The Eats on Feets community and safety information proved to be an invaluable resource as our family grew over the following seven years. We welcomed three more babies who required donor milk and the generosity of our community. All four of my babies were blessed by many donors and were exclusively fed donor milk for 12 months and beyond. Community milk sharing has made an incredible impact on our lives; not only were my children nourished with donor milk, but we have also made lifelong friendships and consider many of our donors to be family. Our experience forged a strong passion inside me to create awareness about community milksharing and support other families in becoming informed about safe community milksharing. I am profoundly thankful for the support, love, and generosity extended to us, I will persist in promoting donor milk as a primary option to supplement one's own milk supply and support safe community milksharing for as long as I can.

Erin, EOF admin

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I had breastfed 3 of my previous babies for 10, 7, and 39mo. When I had my 5th I knew I would also be breastfeeding. Our struggle was something I did not anticipate. I had him early and he had to spend a few days in nicu. We pushed through that. Then he was a slow gainer due to having tongue and lip tie. We were finally doing great when at 2mo I was hospitalized for sepsis. The hospital allowed me to keep him with me as long as someone was there. We made it through that. At 6mo I was hospitalized again for sepsis only to find out I had leukemia and had to wean. I was devastated. We got formula for him and it was not only heartbreaking for me, but he didnt tolerate it well. I found a lady with breastmilk to donate and jumped on it. I had told her my story and she pumped and got us to not only 1 year but 25mo!!! I will forever be greatful to her sacrifices.

Natasha

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My daughter was born with a tongue tie and would not latch. I didn’t know this yet but was desperate to feed her breastmilk. A friend told my about EATS ON Eats On Feets ~ Nevada and I was able to find wonderful people to help me for a whole year! My daughter is now a smart 9 years old and a healthy elite volleyball player! Thank you community!

Marina

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With my second I got severe mastitis and was septic at 6weeks. We had friends and community members donate milk for her to 9 months. With our third we were extremely blessed with a local person to donate milk for our son for his 1st year of life. ❤️❤️

Arianna

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My twin daughters were born in 2019. They were born at 37 weeks and were less than 6 lbs at birth. Twin A was a champion breast feeder but Twin B struggled. Around 5 months Twin B was borderline failure to thrive. She wasn’t gaining weight, was still not even on the growth chart, and was having trouble waking from naps and bedtime due to lethargy. She was diagnosed with low muscle tone, which was affecting her ability to effectively transfer milk. We started supplementing her with bottles of donated milk from women that I connected with through Eats on Feet’s. Within a week she was a different baby! By one year old she was on the growth chart and she’s now a very healthy 6 year old.

Rachel

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I found out I was pregnant with my son in March 2011. I was excited to have a single birth since my first pregnancy was twins, and I was thinking I was going to have a much easier pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding journey.

Well, life had other plans! My son was born when I was only 6 months along, and he weighed only 2lbs, 12oz. 1270 grams. I’ll never forget that number because that was the 4 digit code I used when I called to check on him in the NICU, where he spent the first 89 days of his life.

I had to have an emergency c-section due to a spontaneous uterine rupture, so I struggled to pump breastmilk for my little preemie, and I knew he really needed it. Fortunately for me, my sister was breastfeeding my nephew at the time, so she pumped milk and sent it overnight to us from 600 miles away!

I had to Google information about shipping, storing, and feeding donor breastmilk which led me to Eats on Feets. I quickly found my local chapter’s Facebook page and was able to find over 55 breastmilk donors for my son, and he was able to have breastmilk for his first 20 months of life. He’s now 13 and bigger than me and his dad, and perfectly healthy, and I believe it’s due to the all the breastmilk donors that he is really thriving. I’m so grateful to Eats on Feets for helping me learn to share milk safely and connect with my community when I needed help.

Alicia

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February 23 2024 my baby was born with cleft lip and cleft palate.

I was Determined to pump and give her my milk as she could not nurse let me tell you it was hard !!!

After alot of stress feeding tubs and a g- tube for the first year of life and Three times in the hospital for failure to thrive my supply tanked and at 6 months I got pregnant and with the support and love from all of you my baby got the milk she needed for the first year of her life!!! ❤️

She still has a long way ahead of her with more surgeries and speech therapy and bone graphing and everything but we are thriving now.

Stephanie

And some of our Amazing Donors

Hi! So I figured you’d get a lot of emails about how thankful moms are for donated milk, & how grateful families are to have the opportunity to provide breastmilk longer ect.

But on the other side of the donation world, I want to say I am thankful for this groups for allowing me to make room in my freezer, for introducing me to a few moms who became friends & making my pumps worth it. I am clog prone & have an over supply so it’s a balancing act to nurse enough, pumping enough, and gives me a peace of mind that I’m not pumping for no reason. I donated milk to a friends baby I saw posted on your page, for 10 months, I recently donated my whole freezer to a mom with a baby in the nicu, and Ive donated randomly here & there. It makes pumping worth it!

Robin

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I am so thankful my lactation consultant told me about milk sharing!

My daughter refused bottles from 4 weeks old and at 4 months she was diagnosed with a tongue tie which we got fixed and at the same time my supply dropped so she became very fussy at the breast and was trying to feed every hour. I was started on domperidone and told to pump twice a day to increase my supply. As she was still refusing bottles our freezer was overflowing with milk that I had no use for. When I was told about milk sharing I put a post up and had a huge response which cleared out my initial freezer load. After this I continued to donate to two wonderful mummas who are so appreciative and it gave me great pleasure being able to help them with their feeding journey.

Jayde

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When I had my first baby, he nursed well and I had, what I feel, was an easy experience breast feeding. Flash forward to my second baby, a beautiful girl. I thought my experience would be similar to the first, but I was so wrong.

By the third day, I was so defeated and so frustrated that she would not latch, whatever the reasons - her reasons - were. I started pumping every 2 hours starting when my girl was 3 days old and saw a LC to try to find solutions. Pumping was so hard on me, but I wanted my baby to stay on breast milk if we could make it work, and we did together. Through pumping, I made sure I stayed with pumping every 2-3 hours, even during the night. I started to overproduce, but it wasn't by much but it was more than she needed and I built up a stash of milk in the freezer. I was thrilled that I didn't have that hanging over my head and didn't have to worry about having enough milk, enough food, to give to my baby.

Then I remember the formula shortage. Heartbreaking as it was! I remembered thinking how those parents had nothing to give to their baby. I started to research and found that milks banks and milk sharing groups and sites were trying to get milk to these hungry babes. I thought how amazing it would be to help, and I found Eats on Feets. It was a way to connect with babies locally. It was a face to the donation. I donated only a few hundred ounces over about 1.5 years, but to some families, any amount matters.

I'm still Facebook friends with one mother I connected with. I love seeing the little babe. I'm so glad Eats on Feets exists so that every little babe has a chance to have a full tummy.

If anything about this reads strange, please know that I'm typing this during nap time of the same and sometimes you just have to type things quickly. Hope that my story resonates with at least one person who then donates to a babe in need.

Amy, EOF admin

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I had my daughter in 7/2024 and was blessed enough to be an over producer. I then met another mom and was able to donate my milk to her child. I was able to feed her baby and my own for over 6 months!

Sarah M.

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I gained a best friend and was able to help feed not just one but 2 of her sweet babes❤️.

Millie

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I exclusively pumped for the first 12 months of my son’s life. I was an over producer with a small freezer. Eats on Feets connected me to moms local to me that I could donate my extra milk to. After my pumping journey concluded, i fed 5 babies including my own, easily donating 200-300oz per baby!

Kelsey

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i just completed my 4th time breastfeeding (weaning my 4th as we speak) i started donating with my second as i was an over producer with her and all the times after that. i helped feed twin babies that were struggling when mama couldn’t produce enough for twins, i helped feed multiple other babies in CA. then i moved to Idaho and had my third, helped feed multiple babies with my third in Idaho. another set of twin babies that were struggling and couldn’t tolerate formula. and then with my 4th baby, i donated to a couple mama’s and babies. but i donated to one baby i will never forget. a mom had her baby and shortly passed away of cancer and her friend was getting donor milk for the baby that was left behind. 🥺. and i was one of the donors. after all my donor babies started to get my milk they would get chunky lol. it was a joke with my family. need your baby to chunk up? give them Sarah’s milk. all in all, breastfeeding and donating has been a huge part of my life. not once did i charge for my milk. i donated joyfully to be able to help these mamas and babies. i will miss this part of my life. as im finishing up my last breastfeeding journey. 🥹. it’s bittersweet for sure. as im looking forward to seeing all my babies grow in other ways and looking forward to freedom of not having to pump anymore. but definitely grieving this special part of my life too.

Sarah B.

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I was traveling, staying in Az for 3 days when my baby was close to weaning. I figured I’d pump and dump while gone and by the time I got back, he was ready to be weaned anyway. Regardless, it broke my heart to think I’d be wasting precious breast milk. I posted something about it on Facebook and a bunch of friends chimed in about Eats on Feets. I was overjoyed to get connected in Scottsdale and be able to share probably 40 ounces of breastmilk!!

Shelly

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Never Forgetting our Angels

Last but not least, we have many donors who have angel babies. Theirs is an amazing gift. The memory of their babies are a blessing!

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to share our stories and have them published! My story has many emotions, please read with an open heart:

In August of 2023, we joyfully embraced the news of expecting our fifth child. The early stages of this pregnancy unfolded with the predictability we had come to cherish from our previous four children, filling our hearts with anticipation for the arrival of another little boy to join our family. However, as we prepared our home for Christmas celebrations, our dreams were shattered as we faced the heart-wrenching loss of our sweet boy at just 20 weeks and one day, due to a placental abruption.

In the days that followed, as I began to prepare for the postpartum journey ahead, I was taken aback to discover that my milk had come in. In an impulsive yet instinctual response, I retrieved my collection cups and realized it was still possible to establish a milk supply. In those somber moments of reflection, I understood that this was a path I needed to pursue. With urgency, I sought out a second-hand pump while awaiting the arrival of my own, and my supportive community rallied around me, providing milk bags and sterilization supplies.

As I immersed myself in research on milk donation, I found that Eats on Feets resonated with our needs the most profoundly. Little did we realize, this organization would play a pivotal role in our healing process, one donation at a time. Ultimately, I was able to pump nearly 2,000 ounces—over 15 gallons of milk—nourishing six different babies in the process. The years 2023 and 2024 unfolded in ways we had not anticipated, yet amid the unexpected, we discovered a profound sense of peace in how our journey evolved. I will always recommend Eats on Feets, as this organization holds such a special place in my heart.

Ellisa