These two women are breast friends.
When a woman revealed on her TikTok that she was letting her friend breastfeed her baby, she received both admiration and contempt from the TikTok community and pediatric health experts. I'm getting
Content Her creator @gregariously_grace posted avideoon Sunday showing her friend breastfeeding, saying: I am writing to baby. "
Grace, who has 105,500 followers on the video-sharing platform, has over 800,000 views on the original video as of Monday morning.
You can drink and feed at the same time,” Grace posted a follow-up video with an explanation, which has been viewed more than 122,000 times.
Her friend told me that she has a 7 month old baby who will be out of state for the weekend.
She "strengthened his immune system and nursed her to ease her," she wrote. "Drinking and breastfeeding is absolutely fine. If you're feeling cool enough to drive, you can breastfeed."
"She's breastfeeding her baby." So I trust you to breastfeed my baby," she continued.
TikTok users wondered how they felt about the situation.
"No, my baby is more important than the drink. I consider myself a jealous mom.
More support "This is the most beautiful gesture ever," added another.
One of her shocked commenters wrote:
On the other hand, a recent American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) survey of her 650 mothers found that over 50% were not concerned about the safety of sharing breast milk..
However, the AAP does not encourage the use of informally shared breast milk, citing it as a risk of spreading disease and exposing infants to drugs, alcohol, drugs, or other contamination. According to AAP researchers, women should supplement their own breast milk exclusively with formula or use donor milk provided by a certified milk bank.
"Informal milk sharing is becoming more and more popular and prevalent," says Nikita Sued, a researcher at Cohen Children's Medical Center/Northwell Health in New York City.. "Thus, it is important that physicians educate their patients and be aware of this practice and the risks it entails so that they can address this growing concern."
