Mom of 4 breaks breast milk donation record with ‘insane’ pumping skills

Due to unique circumstances with each of her children's births, mother-of-four Amelia Boomker, 36, couldn't breastfeed any of her children.

So Boomker bottle-fed her children her pumped breast milk — and pumped extra for other mothers.

"I have never really successfully breastfed, but I have produced a whole lot of milk," she tells the Indianapolis Star.

The Bolingbrook, Illinois mom has set a Guinness World Record for donating breast milk: more than 127 gallons of it!

Boomsker donated 16,321 fluid ounces (482.67 litres) of milk — the equivalent of 4,000 milk bottles — between 2008 and 2013.

"We joke that there was probably a wet nurse somewhere in the family tree," Boomker, 36, tells TODAY Moms.

Boomker says she's donated an additional 7,000 ounces of milk to another milk bank, though that amount wasn't included in her record.

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"I would have another 7,000 ounces, but that's okay," she tells the Chicago Tribune. "I know this is a breakable record because I've broken it. And I hope more people break it. There's definitely a demand."

The previous record was held by Karen Merheb of Dallas, Texas, who gave 14,243fl oz.

After each of her pregnancies, Boomker would pump up to 10 times a day for about 20 minutes at a time. She fed her own children, then donated any excess milk to the Indiana Mothers' Milk Bank. She says consistency is the trick to keeping up her supply.

When breast milk is donated, it is pasteurized and distributed according to the Human Milk Banking Association of North America's guidelines, with priority given to premature and ill infants in neonatal intensive care units, TODAY Moms reports.

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Boomker, who is no longer donating, hopes her record will inspire other women to donate their breast milk.

"Amelia's donations helped save many young lives on the way to setting the world record," says Indiana Mothers' Milk Bank spokesperson Carissa Hawkins.

"Our goal is for our moms to be pumping in a healthy manner. So it's not as though we encourage moms to pump an excess amount of milk to go for something like the world record," she adds.

"It just so happens that Amelia — she has some pumping skills...it's just insane."