Her baby was dead. There was nothing she could do to change that heart-shattering fact. But then she learned of a way that other women have found to ease the pain, to add meaning to an unthinkable tragedy. She began to pump the milk her baby would have had, and she donated it to a nonprofit milk bank, which screens, processes, and distributes pasteurized milk, mostly for critically ill babies. The woman’s story was among those included in a study published in the journal Breastfeeding Medicine in May that found that for many women who have lost an infant, expressing their milk and donating it,…