Her milk was the only thing Jen Canvasser could give her babies. Born at 28 weeks, three months prematurely, Zachary and Micah each weighed less than a kilogram and were rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit. The boys were born so early that Canvasser’s milk hadn’t yet come in. She may have been a first-time mother, but she knew this: her babies weren’t going to receive formula. She believed that milk – specifically, her milk – would give them the best start in life. Doctors told her to try to pump every two hours to get her milk to come in. So, every other hour, around the clock, Canvasser assembled the pump in her hospital bed, attached it to her breast and willed the milk to emerge....
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