Photo: Ronja Wiedenbeck via Instagram
It’s amazing how the parenting community rallies together?even for complete strangers.
When 26-year-old Ronja Wiedenbeck was rushed to the hospital last Sunday due to extreme pain caused by ovarian cysts, she was given pain medication that prevented her from breastfeeding her son. Rio, 11 months, refuses to take bottles or formula. Bedridden, the single mom of two turned to her Facebook mom’s group and asked for volunteers to breastfeed her tot.
The result" About 1,000 moms volunteered! Ronja picked five of them to help her out. One of the volunteers, Leigh Ann Fearn, even came to the hospital about an hour after she had messaged Ronja.

Today was a very special,and heartwarming day for me.I was rushed to hospital via ambulance at 6am with another ovarian cyst the size of a tennis ball.I was pumped full of Morphine and other drugs not deemed safe in breastfeeding. Poor Rio really needed feeding and we did not have any expressed Milk with us at the hospital. I wrote a call for help on a Breastfeeding support page I am part of and asked if there was possibly anyone nearby who would nurse my son for me, as I feel so strongly about not advocating formula use for any circumstance unless there really is no other option. This absolute Angel, who I have never met, let alone spoken to came to our rescue, and she was a total Diamond. She fed my son, in the most natural way, and Rio was calm and content. This means so so much t...