Freyja, born four months premature and weighing only 690 grams, spent her first few weeks in an incubator. “My little fighter,” says her mother Giedre Jukneviciute, looking back on a tough few months as Freyja lay surrounded by tubes and cables on the Essen University Hospital paediatric ward. Her mother had a difficult pregnancy, then came the sudden birth. Days later, her milk stopped. “But she got breast milk from the beginning, just from another mum,” Jukneviciute says – thanks to the hospital’s milk bank. Germany has at least 34 mother’s milk banks, says Anne Sunder-Plassmann, managing di…