They call it 'liquid gold,' and any mother who even occasionally pumps and stores her breast milk will tell you the nickname is apt-it's a lot of work. And it's why the hundreds of moms who have donated milk to the preterm and medically fragile babies in NICUs across the area are called 'heroes' by one organization that collects the milk and distributes it to area hospitals. 'One ounce of milk can feed three premature infants or provide one infant three feedings,' Amy Trotter of Mother's Milk Bank of North Texas says. 'It actually does go a long way.' 'These donor moms are our heroes,' she adds. 'They're so generous.' And the milk these mothers donate really is a labor of love. 'We are a...
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