SAINT LOUIS, MO (KRON) – A Saint Louis area mother has found a unique way to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey.

Danielle Palmer says her son’s speech therapist encouraged her to donate some of her extra breast milk to help the people of Houston.

Her son Truett was unable to nurse early on due to a heart defect and other issues.

As a result, Palmer had an abundant supply of frozen milk.

She packed up a cooler containing more than one thousand ounces of the milk to send to flood victims.

“We’re like mama bears,” Palmer said. “We protect one another. With Truett’s heart defect, I don’t take that lightly but I also know that I’m grateful for the situation God placed us in. It’s given us an opportunity to do other things, I mean have we not been in this situation, we wouldn’t be able to share some of our love with the babies in Houston,” she said.

The donated milk will go to moms who lost their frozen supply when they lost power, as well as those who lost their breast pumps in the flooding.

Palmer says she believes her milk will be good for more than 300 feedings.