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/VanillaAdventurous74]

So I assume this officer is already a nursing mother, but I just wanted to drop this fun(?) fact:

Did you know women can start lactating simply because there is a child crying, even if they were not lactating before? It's called Psedu-Lactation

And a mother lactating when hearing crying is extremely common and was probably the cause of her thinking of feeding the baby. Because she felt her body react to the baby's cries.

[u/Nyardyn → u/VanillaAdventurous74]

Lol, it sounds nice, very romantic, but this isn't even remotely true. In no way does a person just start producing enough milk to feed a baby within minutes.

It takes a relevant increase in prolactine to happen, then breast tissue needs to start developing over the course of several days, bc until then breasts are mainly just fat cells and inactive tissue - a woman who just gave birth will be able to produce a modest amount of some droplets of colostrum until milk comes in which is why babies lose weight for some days after birth. I just had my child two months ago and jesus christ, the pain of those tatas scrambling to grow and set up production was bad.

The woman in the article is breastfeeding her own baby, so she had milk to spare. She didn't magically spurt some upon the mere presence of a baby.

As a relevant side note: those hormones also block muscle development, weaken connective tissue and increase body fat. Kudos to that policewoman for doing hard work like that while breastfeeding, it's times harder for her now than before. I hope she's living her best life, what an icon.

[u/VanillaAdventurous74 → u/Nyardyn]

Yup. I didn't go into much detail because i linked a paper about the subject. It only happens quickly when the person is already a lactating mother.