Woman Admits She Tried To Breastfeed A Stranger’s Baby Even Though She Wasn’t Producing Milk

A woman admitted that she tried to ‘breastfeed’ a stranger’s baby even though she was not lactating just to ‘see what it felt like.’

Columnist Leah McLaren, from the Globe and Mail, has made this startling confession in a column she wrote titled, “The Joy (and Politics) of Breastfeeding Someone Else’s Baby.”

Ms McLaren said that it happened at a Toronto house party when she was just 25, with no baby nor a boyfriend, then a sudden thought struck her when she saw a baby in a bedroom.

“I was about 25 and did not have a baby or even a boyfriend at the time.

“And I was broody in the way that young women in their late 20’s often are, before they realize that turning 30 is just the beginning of something rather than a vertiginous cliff off of which unlucky young women fall to die alone and be forgotten,” she wrote.

When she felt “glum” and “distracted,” she decided to wander upstairs to find a bathroom, then walked into a bedroom afterward and found a baby sitting in a car seat with a monitor beside him. She says she saw “the cutest baby” she’d ever seen.

“I smiled at the baby, the baby smiled back. Now this was a connection,” she wrote.

She said that she then picked the baby up and gave him a cuddle and was surprised by the baby’s sucking reflex when her pinky finger ended up in his mouth.

“I suddenly knew what he wanted. And I of course wanted to give him what he wanted,” she continues. “The only problem was, I had no milk. But would it be so bad, I wondered, if I just tried it out””just for a minute””just to see what it felt like?”

So, she started unbuttoning her blouse, and as she was lifting the baby to her breast, someone walked into the room.

“Just as I was reaching into my bra, a shortish man with in a navy suit walked into the room.

“Oh um, hello!” he said, in a friendly, upbeat tone that could not entirely conceal the fact that he was flummoxed to see me sitting there with my top half unbuttoned holding his baby,” she wrote.

The man was the baby’s father, Michael Chong, now a Conservative leadership candidate in Canada.

She said that Mr Chong politely asked for his son. “I see you’ve met my son. May I take him now?” she wrote, referring to Mr Chong and he soon left the party with his family.

Now a mother, Ms McLaren admits that in later years, when she was lactating, she breastfed her friends’ babies a few times and had her babies breastfed by her friends, however, she realises that her actions then at the party were wrong.

“I think if I found a strange woman””one who was both childless and milkless””nursing my baby at a party, I’d be inclined to give her a swift smack upside the head and then call the police.

“This is all to say that breastfeeding is a lovely and marvelous thing, as is co-feeding and everyone should do it. Just don’t try it with a stranger’s baby in a bedroom at a party if you are 25 and stupid,” she wrote.

Her column, which was then suddenly deleted, immediately went viral. However, it lived on through archived versions and continues to raise eyebrows across the world, with The Washington Post calling it a “horror story” or “the very blackest comedy”.

Although some people doubted the truthfulness of the story, thinking it was just a publicity stunt, Michael Chong has insisted that the incident did happen.

Source: Kidspot.com.au