Breast feeding is something many mothers must learn how to juggle, but maybe none more so than Aloha mom Elisabeth Anderson-Sierra.

On a recent visit to her home, she showed KATU’s Wesleigh Ogle three large freezers packed full of bags of frozen breast milk. She says one freezer took her 20 days to fill, but it would typically take a mother a year or two to do the same.

Anderson-Sierra has a rare condition called Hyperlactation Syndrome. "I have an abnormally enlarged pituitary gland that then secretes a ridiculous amount of prolactin, which then makes a ridiculous amount of breast milk,” Anderson-Sierra says. It started before she gave birth to her first child nine years ago.

She produces about seven times more milk than what is typical, meaning she pumps about six times a day. "My last session will be right before midnight, and then I wake up at 3 a.m. and then I wake up at 6 a.m. I can't miss pumping sessions or it becomes a medical emergency," Anderson-Sierra says.

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