SITTING with her three children gathered around her, she looks any other proud mom.
Yet Charmaine Lacock also has another remarkable claim to fame. For she routinely achieves an amazing feat by donating 18 pints (8,517 milliliters) of breast milk — every week.
The 38-year-old became a milk donor after the birth of her youngest daughter earlier this year.
She decided to collect the surplus her own baby did not need and give it to Scotland’s only breast milk bank.
In a move that would make many women wince, she now spends up to six hours a day expressing milk using a pump.
The donations are frozen then delivered to the bank — where the milk is then distributed to babies in need.
She is so generous in her donations that the milk bank believes she deserves recognition.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the official record for donating is 16 pints a week — which Lacock has already surpassed.
Now staff at the milk bank are writing to Guinness to have her recognized as a record breaker.
Debbie Barnett, the Donor Milk Bank Coordinator, said, “Charmaine is an exceptional donor. Our average donor gives us nearly 18 pints of milk in total— yet Charmaine is supplying that every week.
“She’s already a record breaker here and now we’re planning to apply to the Guinness Book of Records to verify her record worldwide.”
Lacock, who formerly worked as a care coordinator, lives in Glasgow’s Knightswood with her 43-year-old partner Alfie Rawson, a health and safety assessor, as well as Mekayla, 10, Sarah, 2, and 3-month-old Paige.
The Guinness Book of Records states that the record for breast milk donation is held by American Alyse Ogletree, who between Jan. 11 2011 to March 25, 2014 gave 2,762 pints to the Mother’s Milk Bank of North Texas — averaging 16 pints a week.
Lacock is currently beating that record in terms of weekly average donations — although she has only been donating for three months.(SD-Agencies)
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