Eleven days after a terrible earthquake in Russia, a mother and her infant were pulled alive from the rubble. Mother Teresa was among those who came to nurse the survivors. As she walked through the hospital, she came upon the woman, badly crushed and near death, with a healthy baby lying beside her. Puzzled at the difference in their condition, Mother Teresa asked the nurses if this was the child’s mother. Yes, she was assured. They had both been trapped when their building collapsed. Without food or water to sustain her, the mother’s breast milk had ceased to flow, but she had kept the baby alive by slicing her finger and squeezing her blood into the child’s mouth.
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SUCCEEDING SANE by Bonnie St. John Deane, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1998, p. 107.