A Beautiful Story About Compassion and Community

[Lyric]

Nursing Moses: Moms step in after infant's mother dies
By Jessica Ravitz, CNN



(CNN) -- The day Charles Moses Martin Goodrich entered the world, a new community was conceived.

As the newborn breathed in life, his mother, Susan Goodrich, began to die. Less than 12 hours after having her son, the 46-year-old mother of four was gone. The cause was a rare amniotic fluid embolism.

It was January 2009, and shell-shocked widower Robbie Goodrich was forced to immediately think of the baby's most basic need: milk.

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What evolved in the coming days still touches Goodrich. More than 20 mothers in Marquette, a city of 20,000 in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, volunteered to nurse baby Moses.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/12/01/marquette.moms.nursing.moses/index.html

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This is one of the most touching, beautiful things I've read recently. If only this kind of selflessness and compassion were the norm in our nation, we'd all be a hundred times better off. This is such a good example of the variety of kindness that we are sorely lacking these days, for the most part. Can you even imagine the sacrifice of personal time and physical energy that went into this endeavor, all to help one little newborn boy who'd lost his mother just hours after being born? It goes so much further than a monetary price could express.

I really needed to read something like this tonight. I hope you enjoy it too.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Lyric!

It IS a wonderful uplifting story!

How much better off we all would be if everyone acted as selflessly as these moms did...

Thank you for posting it...

K&R

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[truedelphi]

2. Thanks Lyric. Really inspiring tale. n/t

[omega minimo]

3. Then put women in charge

:shrug:

[JNelson6563]

4. Michigan's UP

A pretty rustic area, though Marquette is a lovely little city (pretty liberal too). Strong sense of community up there. Really lovely people.

Julie--proud Michigander

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. Thanks.

We'll move forward faster with compassion and community than we will by ignoring what all people need.