This was the question the mum kept on asking the babysitter.
To me this was insanity but I don’t know what this could be to you, a single mum was looking for someone who really can take care of a baby well, so she called back home and asked for her parents to find a good babysitter for her. It took only one month and by February she had a good and willing woman who was ready to start working the mum went back to her working schedule.
She never knew what was going on while she was at work and every time she came back, she was glad to see her baby with a big smile and very joyful. The babysitter apparently was a mother too and she had left her baby to come and work even if her baby was still breastfeeding.Intellectually, she thought this would give her baby a better future.
Being around the small baby most of the time, the babysitter started to miss her own baby and her milk would leak for hours so what to do? She started breastfeeding the baby she was meant to be looking after and she never said anything to the mother, she did these for several months when the mum was away until one day the baby started coughing and crying so much that got the mother worried that she had to take some time off that week, even after spending some time with the her baby, the baby got even worse.
The next morning with worries in her head, she took the baby to the doctor and after some checks the doctor couldn’t find anything wrong but just before they left the baby started throwing up and the doctor recommended for some blood test, this revealed everything, the baby was now HIV. The mum cried and couldn’t understand how the baby got the virus and yet none of the parent is positive. That’s when the babysitter decided to say what she has been doing for the past three months and apologized for that.
This really leaves me with all this questions
Who can we trust with our babies?
How can you miss your child to an extent you breastfeed another baby?
How bad is it in other places that one prefers to leave her own baby?
The babysitter said she did mean to do that, but she was sent home now who is to be blamed?
This really freaked me out and to me it was insanity, how would she do this to someone's baby without consulting the mother? anyway wonders of the world shall never cease.
How could you breastfeed my baby?
By shiko - Posted on June 9th, 2008
thats just...insane!
Where did this take place?
I heard it happened in freetown,Sierraleone
*shiko*
Strange. Where did you hear this from- a reputable source? It sounds a little out there to me.
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Yeah I know it's strange and I could not believe it first until Yemi (a sierraleone pal of mine clarified everything to me). I just read your blog on abortion and rated it too.
*shiko*
Do you have a link to the story?
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Messed up. What ever happened to putting that stuff in a bottle and saving it for its proper owner? duuuuhhhhh. Don't just go breastfeeding some othe rladys baby. That is generally looked down upon by people. What was she thinking?
Too often there are people who just don't seem to have any sense. Breast milk is something that is very personal. It shouldn't be thought of as just something to deal with in the laziest way possible. They make pumps and bottles if you aren't able to be there when you need to be. That poor innocent child caught up in this because of one woman's senselessness.
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Now, I agree that this is a pretty weird thing, but I don't really see any negative consequences for the child other than the risk of disease transmission. The baby won't remember it later in life, and to him or her it was just a routine feeding anyways. It wouldn't have been any different to the baby than a father bottle feeding instead of a mother.
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I agree with you that to the baby, nursing from another ladies' breasts isn't weird; we have one of the few cultures in the world where we don't nurse each others' babies. Obviously in a world full of disease, especially diseases like HIV, we must be prudent about who nurses our babies, but this is actually really good for them, since they get the antibodies of all the mommas they nurse from.
I disagree with you about the statement "It wouldn't have been any different to the baby than a father bottle feeding instead of a mother." Bottle feeding is nothing like breastfeeding; even the baby knows this, and can sometimes suffer from something called "nipple confusion."
Read Ida May Gaskin's Guide to Breastfeeding (available at most local libraries,) for really great stories about how wonderful it can be to share breastfeeding with a close friend or relative who is also nursing her baby.
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Freetown, Sierraleone is not exactly Palm Springs, they have a recent (2002) history of trauma which is still affecting today’s “reasoning” of many…
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There is a long tradition of wet-nursing throughout history. Of course, back in the day, people didn't know about disease transmission and immunity, as we do today.
That said, this has all the earmarks of urban legend...the whole I heard this from a friend who heard it happened in such and such a place bit has me suspicious. I'd love to see a source. I couldn't find anything when I googled it.
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman
The whole HIV thing is what got me. I would believe that it happened without the HIV transmission, but that part makes me believe that if this were real I would have heard it on the news already.
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