I have received one of those touching news that remind us how breastfeeding can be vital in an emergency situation. A few days ago, a abandoned baby saved his life by being breastfed by a police. The girl was found hypothermic and on the verge of death. A police surely saved her life, feeding her with her chest immediately.
It happened in Argentina, in Mendoza, during a massive celebration of the Harvest Festival. People, at the end of the fireworks castle, began to hear the helpless cry of a newborn. Everyone started looking for the baby desperate.
They found a girl who seems to have been abandoned for several hours. It was freezing, wrapped in a blanket, but at the mercy of cold and rain, and without having been fed.
The police, alerted, realized that the ambulance would not be able to arrive on time, because the area, country, was full of thousands of people that hindered its progress. They decided to take a taxi that was in the vicinity.
The most beautiful thing, and that surely served to save that little life, was the attitude of a young policewoman who breastfeeds her five-month-old baby. Generously He offered his arms and chest full of milk to the little girl, that recovered the energies and could arrive at the Hospital. Once there it was determined that she was certainly a newborn as she still had the cord attached.
The news has reminded me of other mothers who have helped helpless babies also in this way, doing what no doubt thousands of mothers did in the history of Humanity. Give milk to children who are not their children, like the one, also a policeman, who was breastfeeding children who were victims of an earthquake in China.
This year Breastfeeding Week will carry, as I will tell you shortly, a motto that remembers this precisely: breastfeeding saves lives in emergency situations. It has been so in this case of a newborn baby breastfed by a generous mother.
