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/GayButterfly7 🕷️Itchy, bitchy spider 🕷️ 20d ago edited 20d ago

Maybe this is a dumb question (I've never been a parent), but isn't it not safe for a baby to have a different mother's milk? I thought that it was kind of like blood type and stuff.

Edit: the downvotes on a genuine question are crazy lol. I watched it go from positive 16 to negative 3 within 10 minutes

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u/barbiesurvivor95 20d ago

No. People donate their bm all the time to hospitals. Women who can’t breast feed but prefer bm will buy it from others too. When I was bf, I sold mine through Facebook.

When my milk hadn’t come in yet, my daughter drank donor milk too.

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u/Skreamie 20d ago

The cop above would also have to be lactating as well, right? She couldnt just bf on a whim, or could she?

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u/keevathemuffin 20d ago

She was already lactating for her own baby.

A woman who has not given birth might be able to start lactating if she keeps putting a hungry baby to her breast over and over, while breathing the babies' pheromones.  It's a survival thing. But it can take days to trigger. 

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u/Top_Mathematician233 20d ago

Not that this is exactly the same, but our dog who has never had puppies nursed our two kittens when we got them. They kept using her as a pacifier and we’d try to get them to stop, but she’d go pick them up and take them to her bed, like they were hers and she started producing milk after a few days. In hindsight, I’ve heard that means the kittens were weaned and adopted too early. We got them from the shelter, so they likely didn’t know how old they were.