American woman gets into the Guinness Book of Records. She donated thousands of liters of breast milk (3 photos)

According to her, she has helped hundreds of thousands of children.





A 36-year-old Texas resident Alice Ogletree has donated a record amount of breast milk, and she has been included in the Guinness Book of World Records for the second time.

Alice has reportedly donated more than 2,645 liters of breast milk. The last time she was recognized as a record holder, she donated 1,569 liters.

Ogletree has two children of her own, aged 7 and 12, and has also been a surrogate mother for another child.



She began donating her milk in 2010, when she had her first child. She discovered she was producing too much milk, and the hospital told her she could donate it to a breast milk bank.

"I was overproducing and [at first] throwing it away, not realising that my oversupply was unique to me, while other mothers might struggle. Eventually I started donating what I had saved and just kept on donating," Alice recalls.

Ogletree decided to break the record when she became pregnant with her second child. "A few months into my pregnancy, there was a news article about someone breaking the Guinness World Record for donating milk. I did the math and realized I would have broken that record within three months," Alice said.

Guinness World Records only counted Ogletree's donations to one breast milk bank, Mothers' Milk Bank in North Texas. Alice says she donated another 2,000 liters to another bank and helped friends with breast milk.



The girl calculated that she helped about 350 thousand babies. Alice said that at times she pumped milk every 3-4 hours.

Doctors never figured out the phenomenon of Ogletree and her milk. She herself says: “Then I drank a lot of water all the time, stuck to my pumping schedule, ate right, worked hard to pump milk because I liked knowing how many children I was helping.”

“I have a big heart,” Alice says. “After all, I’m not rich and I can’t donate money to charity often because I have a family to support.” According to her, giving her milk to children who need it is “one of the best feelings in the world.”

Alice also noted that with her record, she aims to draw public attention to the problems of motherhood, as well as breast milk donation.

“There are several ways to do it [donate milk]. Using certified banks is the safest and most optimal way to ensure that milk reaches those who need it,” the record holder noted.