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Daughter Helps Dad Fight Cancer, by Breastfeeding Him...
Now That's Nifty ^ | 04 21 09 | Nick

Posted on 04/21/2009 2:42:22 PM PDT by Notoriously Conservative

After her father Tim was diagnosed with colon cancer, Georgia Browne went on the Internet to research ways to help save him. That’s where she got a brilliant though a bit unconventional idea to breastfeed her dad:

Georgia recalls. ‘I started researching on the internet immediately and found separate studies in America and Scandinavia both supporting the health benefits of breastmilk to cancer sufferers.

‘I watched the documentary and thought it was a really mad idea, if it was true,’ she says. ‘I started looking on the net and found research suggesting breastmilk helps kill cancer cells.

‘Finding out I could help was amazing. I could play my small part in helping my dad do something positive for his illness. ‘When I talked to him about it, he thought it was a great idea. He thought: “Why not?”’ [...]

With the family’s blessing, Georgia started expressing her milk for Tim straight away. She dropped the first batch round to her parents’ home in a freezer bag, which her mum popped in the freezer.

‘I thought he’d mix it into a milkshake like the man in the documentary, but when Mum defrosted it the next day, he simply poured it on his cornflakes with a splash of normal cow’s milk. He said it didn’t taste that different to cow’s milk, maybe just a bit sweeter if he didn’t get the mix right,’ Georgia says.

New Idea magazine has more: Link

(picture of father and daughter on site)


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: breastfeeding
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1 posted on 04/21/2009 2:42:22 PM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
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2 posted on 04/21/2009 2:44:13 PM PDT by wastedyears (April 21st, 2009 - International Iron Maiden Day)
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Should probably read ‘By providing him with breast milk’. ‘Breastfeeding’ your dad sounds kind of...wth? lol


3 posted on 04/21/2009 2:45:16 PM PDT by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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The headline is misleading. She is not breastfeeding him but milking her breasts, so he can use it. Still strange, but a tad different from what the headline suggested.


4 posted on 04/21/2009 2:45:58 PM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to becomes slaves of Washington.")
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Perhaps, but even if you pump and feed the baby with a bottle, it is still called breastfeeding.


5 posted on 04/21/2009 2:46:53 PM PDT by Notoriously Conservative (http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com)
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I am glad to hear she is just providing the milk and not actually suckling her FATHER. Sheesh.


6 posted on 04/21/2009 2:47:58 PM PDT by Yaelle
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This article’s headline is misleading. She’s giving him her pumped breast milk, which he puts on his cereal. She’s not really “breastfeeding” him.


7 posted on 04/21/2009 2:48:03 PM PDT by keats5
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He is feeding from her breast, no difference. And, still gross


8 posted on 04/21/2009 2:49:49 PM PDT by Notoriously Conservative (http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com)
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9 posted on 04/21/2009 2:50:23 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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He is feeding from her breast, no difference.

Well, except for the whole sucking on her nipples thing.

10 posted on 04/21/2009 2:52:09 PM PDT by xjcsa (Currently shouting "I told you so" about Michael Steele on my profile page.)
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Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase; “Got milk?”


11 posted on 04/21/2009 2:52:48 PM PDT by Kartographer
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The headline is misleading to get people to read the article. There is no other reason to be so ambiguous about what the daughter is doing.


12 posted on 04/21/2009 2:56:04 PM PDT by Judith Anne
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He said it didn’t taste that different to cow’s milk,

Maybe his daughter is a cow?, or looks like a cow?

13 posted on 04/21/2009 2:59:06 PM PDT by Dan(9698)
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no difference.

Huge difference.

14 posted on 04/21/2009 3:02:31 PM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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They are both referred to as breastfeeding.


15 posted on 04/21/2009 3:07:54 PM PDT by Notoriously Conservative (http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com)
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When the aged Cimon was forced to starve in prison before his execution, his devoted daughter Pero secretly visited her father to nourish him at her own breast.

16 posted on 04/21/2009 3:07:59 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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WANT BITTY!

17 posted on 04/21/2009 3:12:21 PM PDT by Andonius_99 (There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
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Makes sense in a way.


18 posted on 04/21/2009 3:16:03 PM PDT by jetson
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The question is: did it help/hurt? Breast milk is full of white blood cells, antioxidants, antibodies, immunomodulators, free fatty acids, DHA etc... This becomes a story if him taking breast milk had an impact (+ or -) on outcome.

Interesting study idea.
19 posted on 04/21/2009 3:23:36 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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Somewhere in Heaven, John Steinbeck is smiling...


20 posted on 04/21/2009 4:23:10 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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