So I am all down with a woman breastfeeding however, it should be her own baby!! Selma Hayek overdid things while trying to be the next Angelina Jolie. She let Nightline and Cynthia McFadden follow her on a goodwill trip to Sierra Leone back in September. Hayek was on her humanitarian trip to spread tetanus awareness and decided to show how dedicated to the cause she was.
She came across a baby whose mother was unable to feed it and somehow Selma came to the conclusion that she should breastfeed the baby. When asked about breastfeeding the baby she said;
the baby was perfectly healthy, but the mother didn’t have milk. He was very hungry. I was weaning Valentina, but I still had a lot of milk that I was pumping, so I breast-fed the baby,” she says, her voice dropping. “You should have seen his eyes. When he felt the nourishment, he immediately stopped crying.”
I guess it is a noble thing to do, but something is still unsettling.
Comments
Crystal Arcand (3Stairs)
February 11th, 2009 - 11:45:14 AM
Gee, I guess you've never heard of wet nurses. Do you really believe the royalty and aristocracy breastfed their own children? Here, let me help: no; they had another woman who was lactating feed their children. And don't think it's a European thing: why do you think some Civil-War era slaves were called "Mammy?" Let's think back to our anatomy lesson, shall we? Mammaries. Today, we have milk banks that save children's lives because - in effect - women feed other women's babies with their breastmilk. I triple-dog-dare you to look a hungry baby in the face while having what he needs and refuse to give it to him. And I pray that one day you never have to go through the agony that mother did in having a hungry child and not being able to do anything about it. And if you do, you had better start praying now that the lactating woman you come across hasn't read this post.
donna young
February 12th, 2009 - 3:14:58 PM
A baby is hungry, you have what the baby needs to stay alive. There is nothing wrong about it, regardless of who you are. Praise God for Selma and for her willingness to give back what she can so simply give! It's life at it's most inocent form.