[Stardust]

When the freezer of Jessica Santangelo's refrigerator started to fill up with her expressed breast milk, she decided to buy a standalone freezer.

Then that freezer started to fill up.

Santangelo's 7-month-old daughter has started eating solid foods, so she doesn't drink as much milk as she once did.

"There was no way I was going to throw breast milk away," Santangelo said. "It's just way too precious."

In late October, Santangelo, of Richmond, decided to donate her milk to the Indiana Mothers' Milk Bank, which pasteurizes breast milk from screened donors and distributes it to hospitals for use with premature and sick babies.

"I'm fortunate to have a happy, healthy baby," Santangelo said. "If I can help another mom and another baby by giving them some of my milk, I'm more than happy to do so."

Santangelo has packed 482 ounces of breast milk in dry ice and shipped it to the Indiana Mothers' Milk Bank.

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