Get ready to tear up and grab your nipples. A Chinese cop has been contributing to the earthquake relief effort in a very specific way: breastfeeding.
Jiang Xiaojuan started her unusual mission as a wet nurse just after pulling a three-month-old baby out of rubble the day the devestating earthquake flattened large parts of her Sichuan province and left thousands and thousands dead and homeless. After learning the baby's mother was missing, she decided to breastfeed the infant.
From Reuters:
The young police officer now spends her days breast-feeding other
babies at local shelters, most of whose mothers are dead, missing or
too tired to feed their children. More than 80,000 people are now
confirmed dead or missing after China's worst earthquake in decades.
The disaster has orphaned thousands of children.
Xiaojuan is the mother of a six-month-old boy, who, ironically, she barely gets to nurse these days -- something that clearly upsets here (watch the video). Still, something tells me the boy will understand, once he's old enough.
Would you volunteer your milky boobs to help other babies? I remember watching coverage of Katrina, my swollen boobs letting down all over the place, and thinking "I'd totally nurse those babies who had nothing to eat."
Video: Reuters
