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| Fluvanna inmate feeding baby in ICU from prison |
| By dailyprogress.com- Frank Green |
| Published: 11/13/2018 |
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TROY — Anthony entered the world in September, 2½ months ahead of schedule and weighing 2 pounds, 14 ounces. Though a dozen miles, coils of razor wire, reinforced concrete and electrically operated doors that clang shut with authority separate Anthony and his mother, the baby is being nourished with her breast milk. Anthony resides in the neonatal critical care unit at the University of Virginia Medical Center; his mother, Ashley, at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. Once or twice a week, a physician who works at both facilities delivers Ashley’s breast milk to the hospital. “It’s amazing ... I’m so blessed to have this,” Ashley said of the arrangement, the first of its kind by the Virginia Department of Corrections. “We call her the milk fairy,” she said of Dr. Denise Young, the OBGYN for the prison who is also on the faculty at the UVa hospital. Read More. |
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