SEATTLE - When a blood clot in her brain prevented Jesi Paschen from nursing her second daughter, she turned to what she believed was the next best thing: breast milk from another mother. The 27-year-old mom wanted newborn Radlee, now 7 months, to glean the same benefits as sister Hinlee, 21/2, including all the nutrition, antibodies and other disease-fighting properties found in human milk. So Paschen, like growing numbers of mothers who can't nurse their own children, turned to online sources, including the Facebook site for the Washington state chapter of Human Milk for Human Babies, or HM4HB. "I believe that breast milk is best for my child," said Paschen, who still takes...
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