Instead of getting rid of her excess breast milk, Nidhi Parmar Hiranandani decided to start donating it to a breast milk bank in Mumbai. This critical donation helps babies every day.
Nidhi Parmar Hiranandani gave birth to a beautiful baby boy on 21 February 2020. After nine years of marriage, Nidhi and her husband, Tushar, welcomed Veer into their home. While she enjoyed the newfound joys of motherhood, she found herself in a particularly perplexing situation. “After nursing my child, I realised that I still had a lot of milk leftover. I had read on the internet that breast milk does have a shelf life of three to four months if properly stored in a refrigerator,” begins Nidhi, who went on to make a sizable donation of breast milk during the lockdown period.
A month-and-a-half down the line, she found her freezer starting to fill up with breast milk as she still had…