This New Mom Wants To Donate Breast Milk To Covid Orphans

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Ronita Rekhi has been a mom for just three months, and she wants to help out during the pandemic. She's offering to donate breast milk to infants who lost their mothers to the coronavirus.

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00:00I'm a nursing mother myself, and of course, in my heart, I would never, ever want any

00:14child to go through this.

00:31Because of her, today, I am a nursing mother, if she wasn't there in my life, I wouldn't

00:35be able to do this.

00:46One day, I was sitting and just scrolling down my Twitter and I read about a newborn

00:54baby who lost his mother to COVID and they were looking for someone who were willing

01:03to donate or nurse the child.

01:06And that is when I realized that this is so important.

01:10That is how this whole idea came up to me because cases in Assam and in Guwahati were

01:15also increasing at that particular time.

01:33Out of the 100% that has messaged me, 99% people have only come up and said such good

01:40things.

01:41One day, I was literally in tears because the messages were so overwhelming.

01:47They were so kind.

01:48Of course, there are always going to be negative messages, which I don't think we should really

01:53bother about it because especially for me, when I'm nursing a child, I don't want any

01:57negativity in my body right now.

02:00But trust me, the 99% of good messages, they just keep me alive right now, keep me so happy.

02:12I got a lot of messages from young girls who messaged me saying that the day we turn mothers,

02:27we are going to do the same with or without the pandemic.

02:31There are a lot of children out there who must have lost their mother to any kind of

02:35disease or the mothers will not be able to lactate properly and are looking for donors

02:41or looking for mothers who could nurse.

02:44So I felt very happy because maybe the future mothers are looking forward to this.

02:49I got some men messaging me and saying, you know, it is so beautiful.

02:53This is so nice.

02:55And we showed this to our wife and our wife is also willing to do it.

03:41You know how in India, everything like breastfeeding and talking about breast milk is a taboo.

03:49But times have changed, you know, the new generation, the new young people, they have

03:54changed.

03:55They are coming up and talking to me so positively, talking to me so comfortably, you know, and

04:02it's a great thing.

04:03It is a great thing.

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