Watch Clip --- What do you think?
 

FYI, I generally won't watch a movie clip unless i know what it is first. I didn't watch it all, I just wanted to see what it was.

For others, its Selma Hayak breastfeeding a starving baby.

I think its a bit odd personally and would've rather seen some formula handed out. I know breastfeeding is healthy but passing your breast milk onto someone elses baby is kind of odd. I always thought the concept of a 'wet nurse' was odd though so...

Thanks I will be more more careful in the future to title the clip. Never thought to... sorry didnt mean to be vague!

I should probably just stay out of any comments about Selma Hayak and her breasts ;)

It's very thought provoking. She mentioned that her grandmother helped a woman on the side of the road whose infant was hungry and she didn't have any milk left.

The wet nurse concept is "odd" to me too, but that's probably because of how uncommon it is in today's society (although milk banks are becoming popular, I hear). I'm sure it's a common practice in many cultures and I don't see why it wouldn't be- though it may not be particularly safe.

I wish I could be that giving of myself, that baby was adorable and hungry so why not. Good for Salma.

I say good for her.

JuliaDH, in regards to not saying what the video was about...you could go back and edit your post, if you wanted to. Although at this point, people can figure out what it is by scrolling down. Not a big deal.

EZMONEY - LOL, sorry your comment was cute.

Sandy

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That is wonderful what Selma did, it is no different from pumping/donating to a milk bank.

There are milk banks? I've never heard of those. Do they sanitize the milk?

I think it's wonderful. Hungry baby needs food, and she responds immediately -- what could be better? Formula is NEVER a better option than human milk, whether the milk is from the baby's biological mother or not. I never would have known that before I started breastfeeding myself and read tons about it. There's SO much misinformation about it, it drives me a little crazy sometimes.

It doesn't need to be sanitized. I'm sure it's checked for transmittable diseases, though.

I have no problem with it whatsoever. In Africa and in some other cultures, women feed each other's children as a matter of necessity. No biggy. I would give another child my own breastmilk and if I know a woman well enough (such as my sister or something) I would have allowed my child to nurse from someone else too.

I don't think formula is a better option than human milk. As I said I think its an odd concept and granted I didn't watch the full clip (I'm at work). I would think that yes you can feed a hungry baby with your own milk but you can only feed so many children. If there are tons of hungry children, then I think handing out formula (mixed with clean water of course) would be an option.

Still struggling with what would I do. I would prefer to express my milk and bottle feed. But if there was no pump and no bottle available. I would probably JUST DO IT!

I hope (and assume) that they were giving out food and formula as well, as needed. The Salma Hayek thing was just newsworthy because she whipped her breast out, I guess, and it wouldn't be so newsworthy if we didn't have so many hangups in our culture about breastfeeding. I'm a little annoyed when the answer is handing out formula instead of teaching women about breastfeeding, though (not that you're saying that's what should always happen). I believe there was something going on in Sierra Leone where men were telling their wives not to breastfeed because they didn't believe you should have sex while breastfeeding. Pretty horrible. And then there's the whole Nestle thing that happened years ago where they gave out formula in 3rd world countries a few years back and the women's milk dried up so they HAD to use formula. They couldn't afford to stay on it, of course, so they had to dilute it, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of babies. This is why we have to be careful about handing out formula, as long as there IS an option for the mom to breastfeed. I believe the mom in the Salma Hayek video was unable to for some reason, but I could be wrong.

Keep in mind that many sick babies are allergic to formulas, its a wonderful gift from those who can donate.

For some reason, and it may not be true, I was thinking that the mother may have been starving herself. I've read a lot of stories recently about how food is becoming a huge issue, even more so than in the past, in impoverished countries. Mothers are giving their children and husbands food and starving themselves which I can't imagine is a good thing for those mothers that are breastfeeding.