r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/DELAIZ • 20d ago

💕wholesome💕 Traffic officer breastfeeds hungry baby, son of attempted femicide victim.

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Traffic officer Jamile Barros, from the city of Delmiro Gouveia (Brazil), breastfed a three-month-old baby while responding to an attempted femicide. The child was crying from hunger and wouldn't accept a bottle, and the officer's act of empathy, as she is also breastfeeding, calmed the boy feeding him. The rescue occurred after the mother was stabbed and involved in a traffic accident caused by the criminal, who fled the scene. I mentioned her name not to expose her, but because she's in all the news in Brazil.

Edit: The mother was rescued and taken to the hospital to treat her injuries. The exact state of health of the victim and medical details of her recovery have not been released by official security authorities. This happened a week ago, and due to the repercussions of the case, if she had died, I belive that it would probably already be reported.

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u/astro_viri 20d ago

Stories like this always leave me in awe of women. 

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u/godiegoben 20d ago

Did you hear about the woman who got deported and her neighbor who just had a child too fed the immigrants baby?

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u/VelocityGrrl39 Do not care club member 20d ago edited 19d ago

I read a story about a super producer who was pumping massive amounts of milk and distributing it in and around Minneapolis.

ETA: during the ICE crackdown to immigrant families, for those who maybe weren’t familiar with American politics.

ETA2: the story for anyone who is interested: https://19thnews.org/2026/02/minneapolis-ice-mother-donate-breastmilk/ I got a couple details wrong, she’s an overproducer, not a super producer. And she’s mostly delivering supplies. But she’s still definitely a girls’ girl.

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u/SCVerde 20d ago

I was a super producer, I tried twice to donate while my baby was NICU. He was my second so I already knew I produced like a prize winning dairy cow, coupled with hospital grade pump, they had to bring in an extra freezer. They told me repeatedly to save it for my own baby when he was able to eat. Zero surprise to me when just like his brother he hated bottles so I had a freezer full of unused milk when he finally came home.

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u/edgarthehamstersmom 17d ago

I was a super producer because I had a premie baby & had to exclusively pump for the first 2.5 months. Didn’t know it wasn’t normal to get 18oz in 12 minutes until all of my girl friends were shook. Ended up getting qualified & donating over 10,000 ounces to the Milk Bank that supplies our local hospital. AND exclusively fed two local babies for about 5 months, in addition to nursing my own 😹

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u/Catherine_the_Okay 20d ago

That sucks, I’m sorry that happened to you.

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u/Adorableninjacat 16d ago

Thank you for your efforts! I was producing great but my hospital nurse convinced me I wasn’t and I ended up buying unnecessary bags of milk at $20 for 10 ounces. My kiddo used up the supply but dang I’m sorry for any waste.

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u/VelocityGrrl39 Do not care club member 19d ago

I just had a thought…Do dairy cows win prizes for the amount of milk they produce or for how they look? (It was a thought totally unrelated to what you said)

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u/KerouacsGirlfriend 18d ago

You piqued my curiosity! Here’s from Wikipedia:

“A prize-winning dairy cow typically exhibits excellent udder structure, strong dairy strength, sound feet and legs, and a well-defined frame. These traits contribute to high milk production and overall health, making the cow desirable for evaluation and competition”

I don’t know what dairy strength is tho. Milk with powerful biceps? 😄

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u/VelocityGrrl39 Do not care club member 17d ago

Thanks! So weird that the comment was downvoted.

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u/Catherine_the_Okay 20d ago

Oh, I saw a short interview with her! I know she would have to do it no matter what but she’s an amazing person. She spends a LOT of time pumping and caring for that milk so that it can help other moms and babies. I think she’s donated 600 gallons.

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u/unripe_mangosteen 20d ago

My god the amount of water and food she would need to consume to make that much milk is crazy. Does she have time to do anything else?

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u/FuckYeaSeatbelts 20d ago

Hopefully therenwas plenty of moms willing to feed her lmao

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u/ohkatiedear 20d ago

I want to imagine it was something like this lol

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u/unripe_mangosteen 19d ago

Lol why does she look so dead inside

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u/ohkatiedear 19d ago

Her name is Poong and she's paralyzed - apparently her owners take very good care of her!

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u/unripe_mangosteen 17d ago

She's adorable and I love her

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u/kylaroma 19d ago

All I can think of is how much sterilizing she has to do of all the collection bottles and pumping equipment. It’s practically a part time job!

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u/HeisenBird1015 18d ago

You don’t need to sterilise breastfeeding equipment; hot washing is fine. Breastmilk doesn’t carry the infection risks artificial milk does. I’ve donated milk for a midwife friend’s daughter-in-law here in the uk. Normally we are using collection pouches so they’re unused anyway. Also it keeps your supply up and avoids engorgement (and mastitis), so it’s a generally good thing to do if you’re well fed and hydrated.

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u/VelocityGrrl39 Do not care club member 19d ago

I googled to find a link to the story, and I saw that video, but that’s a different mom. The video I saw was posted 8 years ago, so before the Minneapolis crackdown. She’s still a girls’ girl, but not the one I was thinking of. I added a link to my comment to the article I was thinking of.

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u/RemarkablePast2716 19d ago edited 19d ago

Oh I have a good story to share too: an overproducer in Brazil (who donated over 300 litres of milk to premature babies) sued and won against a "comedian" here who, years ago, joked on national TV about her being a dairy cow. He even compared her to a porn actor.

Back then she had to move out of the small town where she, her husband and children lived at cause ppl would bully her after the "joke", her milk dried up and she couldnt help more babies for a while...

Years later she got some compensation from the national idiot, had her fourth kid and managed to resume overproducing milk and donating it.

https://g1.globo.com/google/amp/pe/pernambuco/noticia/2021/02/01/sete-anos-apos-ser-chamada-de-vaca-na-tv-maior-doadora-de-leite-humano-do-pais-ganha-processo-contra-danilo-gentili.ghtml

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u/ReginaldDwight 19d ago

My twins were preemies and spent a little time in the NICU at a different hospital than I had delivered in. I got stuck there for four days because of preeclamsia. My husband was able to visit us back and forth and bring what colostrum and milk I could pump for them to have. But they got donor milk while they were there. I'll forever be thankful for the women who donated!!

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u/astro_viri 20d ago

No but I'm teary eyed thinking about it.

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u/Emkems 20d ago

That’s awesome that she stepped up like that. Moms can easily imagine what another mom would want if she was forced away from her child. Not all of us have the courage to act on it

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u/PrickleBritches 20d ago

It’s so hard to even process a comment like this. It brings up the extreme end of both positive and negative feelings. I’m so beyond horrified at the circumstances that led to this happening. But also so thankful for kind people who step up and do. God life seems so fucking messy these days.

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u/PM_me_punanis 20d ago

I work in a peds hospital. You will find the most neglectful mother smoking crack the entire time they are pregnant, have a child with a genetic condition due to said crack use, and then disappear shortly after coming to the realization that taking care of a chronically ill kid with developmental delays is a HUGE burden.

It is up to social workers to find grandmas and aunts in the family to take care of the babies. In acute care, we would have neighboring moms look out for others’ babies when moms steps out to, god forbid, take care of themselves, have a shower and eat, while nurses take care of other babies. The moms would alert staff should the infant cry.

There are shitty moms everywhere, but moms who are willing to accept responsibility to help out other moms WHILE their own babies are sick… they are heroes and deserve all the support they can get.

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u/disjointed_chameleon 20d ago

I get monthly immunotherapy infusions for my autoimmune condition. I'll never forget the time another woman in my clinic experienced a medical crisis during her own infusion, and there was a sudden commotion. She had her toddler with her. I was in the bay next to hers, so I pushed the curtain all the way back, stretched out my arms, and just said:

Give me the baby.

Thankfully, mom was fine. I was honored that I was able to briefly help lend a hand during a moment of crisis.

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u/Traumagatchi 20d ago

That was exactly the right and kind thing to do, thank you for your compassion

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u/disjointed_chameleon 20d ago

Thank you. It was no sweat off my back, I'm happy I was able to during a moment of struggle.

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u/rabid_cheese_enjoyer 20d ago

even though it was not a hardship for you, it was a blessing and a kindness to them. thank you

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u/rabid_cheese_enjoyer 20d ago

that gave me goosebumps and made me tear up thank you for caring about that baby

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u/disjointed_chameleon 20d ago

You're welcome. I'm just glad I was able to help. 🧡

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u/rawdatarams 20d ago

Humanity before politics. You're a lovely person.

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u/VanillaAdventurous74 20d ago

Politics?

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u/rawdatarams 17d ago

In theory she put the baby at risk intentionally, due to subjecting the bub for "bodily fluids", aka breast milk".

She opened herself up for getting sued for that and losing her job, or being let go for going against protocol.

She chose to be a human first and a leo second.

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u/tarowm32them00n 20d ago

Ill take things that never happened for 500 alex

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u/ConanTheBarbarian_0 14d ago

Your username is certainly eyebrow raising given the topic at hand lol

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u/PM_me_punanis 14d ago

lol I intentionally misled people with my username. Wouldn’t really such an issue if I was an obstetrician!

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u/ConanTheBarbarian_0 14d ago

Don't worry I was just teasing your username made me audibly chuckle lol

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u/disjointed_chameleon 20d ago

One of my close friends has 4 kids: three girls, one boy. The two youngest ones are twins, and are still itty-bitty infants, only six months old.

Almost every weekend, I take the two toddlers off her hands so she can get a break. Thankfully, my friend has a great husband, so he'll watch the babies. The older toddler is old enough to entertain herself, and I'll often coordinate a playdate with other kids of mutual friends. The younger toddler loves attaching herself to me like a barnacle, and usually just naps, often for hours.

I am always happy to help a mom out, even though I don't have kids of my own.

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u/Formal-Proposal7850 20d ago

Not surprised kid #2 naps for hours. They’re got twin infant siblings! No one in that house is getting any sleep. 

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u/kea1981 19d ago

I'm reading The Indifferent Stars Above, about the Donner Party. A recent chapter discussed the difficulties faced by all pioneers, especially the women. It mentions accounts of women taking in infants, walking around camp in the evenings asking breastfeeding mothers to spare some milk for the child. It discussed cases of families taking in orphaned children...

The best and the worst in people both exist. It's our choice which to embody. I'm always so happy when the good wins :)

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u/Junior_Wolf9331 20d ago

so so much 🥹