- Sarah Murnane, 25, asked for breast milk donors to help cancer-stricken friend
- Her close friend, who wants to breastfeed her baby, was diagnosed on Monday
- Ms Murnane, a mother-of-two, is founder of Australian Breastfeeding Project
- She made a call out asking for people to donate milk to feed her friend’s baby
- Received around 45 litres of breast milk from generous mothers in the local area
Max Margan For Daily Mail Australia
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When Sarah Murnane made a call out for breast milk donations to help her cancer-stricken friend, the response was remarkable.
The Geelong-based photographer received a heartbreaking call from her close friend on Monday – who had been diagnosed with breast cancer just hours earlier.
For Ms Murnane’s friend, the worrying diagnosis was coupled with her anxieties about how she would feed her six-month-old baby boy.
‘She was obviously devastated. She has to stop breastfeeding to start treatment and she wants her child to have breast milk,’ Ms Murnane, 25, told Daily Mail Australia.
Sarah Murnane (pictured), from Geelong, made a call out for breast milk donations to help her cancer-stricken friend on Monday. She could never have imagined the response
Ms Murnane, a mother-of-two, is founder of the Australian Breastfeeding Project. Pictured, just some of the donated breast milk
Luckily for her friend, Ms Murnane, who has two children of her own, is the founder of the Australian Breastfeeding Project.
‘She asked if I could help her to feed her bub – and we did,’ Ms Murnane said.
In a heartfelt Facebook post, Ms Murnane asked local mothers to donate milk to feed her friend’s baby.
‘It is with tears in my eyes that I put a call out to help of my close friends find donor milk for her little boy as she has been diagnosed with breast cancer,’ she wrote.
In a heartfelt Facebook post, Ms Murnane asked local mothers to donate milk to feed her friend’s baby
‘It is with tears in my eyes that I put a call out to help of my close friends find donor milk for her little boy as she has been diagnosed with breast cancer,’ she wrote
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‘The project will be donating a deep freezer which I am hoping we can fill with donor milk.’
In just over 48 hours, Ms Murnane had received around 45 litres of breast milk from generous mothers in the local area.
‘The response has been amazing – it’s been huge… and there’s still more coming,’ she said.
‘She wants to feed for another six months so we will need more. But this is going to get her through the first couple of months at least.
Ms Murnane and the Australian Breastfeeding Project also donated a freezer to store the milk
In just over 48 hours, Ms Murnane had received around 45 litres of breast milk from generous mothers in the local area
‘We’re hoping to have some regular donors that will donate on a regular basis.’
Ms Murnane set up the Australian Breastfeeding Project in 2015, aiming to generate a greater acceptance of the benefits of breastfeeding.
‘It started off with a photo that I had an idea for. I wanted to represent the sisterhood of breastfeeding mothers,’ she said.
Ms Murnane said: ‘We’re hoping to have some regular donors that will donate on a regular basis’
‘It started off with a photo that I had an idea for,’ Ms Murnane said of the Australian Breastfeeding Project. ‘I wanted to represent the sisterhood of breastfeeding mothers’
She said the movement has struck a chord with mothers across the country.
‘The support group can mean so much… People have asked me to go to their cities and I have. I travelled and I’ve photographed in every state in Australia now.
‘It just got so big and it’s got us to where we are now.’
Ms Murnane (pictured) has photographed breastfeeding mothers in every state in Australia
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