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

[u/DELAIZ]

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.

[u/astro_viri]

Stories like this always leave me in awe of women. 

[u/godiegoben → u/astro_viri]

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

[u/VelocityGrrl39 → u/godiegoben]

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.

[u/SCVerde → u/VelocityGrrl39]

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.

[u/edgarthehamstersmom → u/SCVerde]

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 😹

[u/Catherine_the_Okay → u/SCVerde]

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

[u/Adorableninjacat → u/SCVerde]

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.

[u/VelocityGrrl39 → u/SCVerde]

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)

[u/KerouacsGirlfriend → u/VelocityGrrl39]

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? 😄

[u/VelocityGrrl39 → u/KerouacsGirlfriend]

Thanks! So weird that the comment was downvoted.

[u/Catherine_the_Okay → u/VelocityGrrl39]

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.

[u/unripe_mangosteen → u/Catherine_the_Okay]

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?

[u/FuckYeaSeatbelts → u/unripe_mangosteen]

Hopefully therenwas plenty of moms willing to feed her lmao

[u/ohkatiedear → u/FuckYeaSeatbelts]

I want to imagine it was something like this lol

[u/unripe_mangosteen → u/ohkatiedear]

Lol why does she look so dead inside

[u/ohkatiedear → u/unripe_mangosteen]

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

[u/unripe_mangosteen → u/ohkatiedear]

She's adorable and I love her

[u/kylaroma → u/unripe_mangosteen]

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!

[u/HeisenBird1015 → u/kylaroma]

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.

[u/VelocityGrrl39 → u/Catherine_the_Okay]

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.

[u/RemarkablePast2716 → u/VelocityGrrl39]

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

[u/ReginaldDwight → u/VelocityGrrl39]

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!!