A woman on TikTok demonstrated how she let her friend nurse her baby after she had a few drinks. This post has evoked mixed feelings among fans and followers. It has drawn praise and derision from TikTok users and pediatric health professionals. The concerned woman, Grace, recently posted a video of her friend breastfeeding the child.
The woman wrote with a video that she had consumed a few drinks and so she let her friend nurse her baby. She is a content creator who posts under the name of @gregariously grace wrote in a video she posted on Sunday.
By Monday morning, the original video had received more than 840,000 views from Grace, who has more than 105,500 followers on the video-sharing website. However, there was also scorn from the TikTok community as well as pediatric health experts. Followers posted that did not understand why she let her friend breastfeed her child.
Over 122,000 people have watched Grace’s explanation video that was posted as a follow-up. Grace revealed that her friend’s 7-month-old infant is spending the weekend out of state with them. She let her nurse him “to strengthen his immune system and also to relieve her,” she stated. Grace said she trusted her as she nurses her own child as well.
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One more forgiving mother stated that it was a beautiful gesture. In contrast, 650 mothers who participated in a recent American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) survey revealed that more than 50% of them had no concerns about the safety of sharing their breast milk.
The AAP discourages the use of unofficially shared breast milk, citing the risks of disease transmission as well as the possibility of exposing an infant to contaminants such as drugs, alcohol, or other medications. Women should only use donor milk that comes from a licensed milk bank or supplement their own breast milk with formula, according to AAP researchers.
According to Nikita Sood, a researcher at Cohen Children’s Medical Center/Northwell Health in New York, informal milk sharing is becoming more and more common and popular. Doctors must become aware of this practice and the risks it entails so that they can inform patients and address this growing concern.
