It is not the first time that we echo this type of news, but it does not stop us from being moved by the tenderness and generosity of the act: a nurse has breastfed a newborn whose mother was unwell after a home birth.
It has happened in Argentina and the image has gone viral when it is shared by various media in the country. We tell you the story.
The newborn had not received food for hours
It happened in the town of Sumampa. The boy’s mother gave birth at home and was sick. The baby had not eaten for three hours, so Vanesa Suárez decided to breastfeed him. Https://t.co/LBcatD06k1
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The events took place last Monday in Sumampa, a city in the Argentine province of Santiago del Estero. There, a 22-year-old woman had just given birth at her home without assistance , after a pregnancy in which she had also not had any medical control.
Nurse Vanesa Suárez and another colleague had received the notice to come to help her, and when they got home they found the new mother in a delicate condition and with the placenta still inside. In addition, it was three hours since the birth had occurred and the baby had not yet eaten.
“The young mother had not had any control, that is why I contact the doctor and she tells me that for greater security we will transfer her and her baby to the Ojo de Agua hospital, so that all the controls are carried out, and avoid a infection or some complication “- Vanesa explained.
Before the transfer, the nurses tried unsuccessfully to get the baby to latch onto its mother’s breast , but in Vanesa’s words, the woman “was a bit sick” and was not able to breastfeed. Fearing that the newborn would suffer a drop in sugar, and in the absence of bottles and formula milk in the house, Vanesa offered to breastfeed, since she has a one-year-old son who is still breastfeeding.
And so it was that with the permission of the mother and the doctor who was treating them, the nurse began to breastfeed the baby:
“I took off my gown, because we were dressed as the protocol indicates in this time of pandemic and there I just gave him the breast and he began to suck very well, so it was a relief to be able to give him food” – the Argentine media collects, The Digital Gazette.
Vanesa affirms that her reaction was instinctive and with the sole purpose of helping the baby, but the photograph in which she is seen breastfeeding the newborn was immediately shared by the Argentine media, and has ended up going viral.
Later, the woman and her baby were transferred to the Hospital de Ojo de Agua Dr. Cleofas Mazza, where they underwent a medical check-up and were discharged. The doctors and nurses at this hospital highlighted Vanesa’s altruistic and noble gesture.
Via | The Digital Gazette
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