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Henderson hospital uses human-milk fortifier to treat premature infants

Anastasia Lorenz didn’t expect to be in the delivery room, and in labor for 48 hours, so soon. But little Jacob Copeland wouldn’t wait the full term.

Jacob was born a month premature and weighed 2.5 pounds. He dropped to as low as 1.5 pounds 10 days later and had trouble digesting Lorenz’s breast milk.