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Mama Looking Out! Serena Williams Says She’s Donating Her Breast Milk To Help A Mom In Need

<p>Nothing goes to waste in <strong>Serena Williams<&sol;strong>&&num;8216&semi; home &&num;8212&semi; especially not her breast milk&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The retired tennis champion and mom of two shared a video on her <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;C1F&lowbar;LL&lowbar;r2Q2&sol;&quest;hl&equals;en" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Instagram<&sol;a> on Wednesday &lpar;December 20&rpar; highlighting her breastfeeding journey&period; She had just concluded a trip to New York&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Wiliams became a mother for a second time in August when she <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;serena-williams-alexis-ohanian-welcome-second-daughter&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">welcomed her baby daughter<&sol;a>&comma; <strong>Adira<&sol;strong>&comma; whom she shares with <strong>Alexis Ohanian<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Given that she&&num;8217&semi;s back to pumping milk for her infant&comma; and with their time in the Big Apple drawing to a close&comma; Williams decided she wasn&&num;8217&semi;t going to take the milk home with her&period; Instead&comma; she&&num;8217&semi;d be donating it to a mother in need&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a short clip&comma; Williams showed her followers multiple packs of breast milk inside the freezer&comma; ready to be sealed and delivered to a mother and her baby&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"C1GbD6dsD1W" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She accompanied the clip with a caption in which she explained that&comma; after recently passing a screening&comma; she would be giving her milk away&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Williams wrote&comma;<strong><em> &&num;8220&semi;On a recent trip to NY I had leftover breast milk&period; After going through a screening&comma; I was able to donate it instead of taking the milk home&period; I know so many amazing women that adopt or are unable to make milk&period; It felt amazing&period; BTW Someone out there is getting some super soldier milk&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Williams declared her enthusiasm in supplying breast milk &&num;8220&semi;to people who really need it&&num;8221&semi; before concluding the video by saying that she&&num;8217&semi;s excited to be some sort of help&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Serena Williams Uses Breast Milk To Treat Sunburns<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>In a TikTok video posted on December 2&comma; Williams demonstrated how she applied her own breast milk as an unconventional facial treatment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;They say&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Put breast milk on everything&comma; and I have a lot extra&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;so I&&num;8217&semi;m going to try it for a week or so under my eyes&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-tiktok data-src&equals;"7308012812989648159" width&equals;"325" height&equals;"575"><&sol;amp-tiktok><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Williams went on to explain that her sensitive skin&comma; combined with direct sunlight after using a skin care product&comma; resulted in her having sunburn spots underneath her eyes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the video on TikTok&comma; she thoroughly shakes the bottle of breast milk before taking a bit of it and applying it to a tissue that she then used to dab the area underneath her eyes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the caption of the video&comma; Williams expressed that the treatment was effective&comma; noting&comma; <strong><em>&&num;8220&semi;After a week of applying MY breast milk around my eyes&comma; the results were visible&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>RELATED&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;coco-gauff-best-serena-williams-career&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Coco Gauff Says She Wants To Be Her &OpenCurlyQuote;Best’ Without Emulating Serena Williams’ Career<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;h5>&NewLine; 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