Lactating policewoman.
That sounds like the title of a porn, and will probably get me more dirty spam, but it is actuaully something interesting I saw in the paper today.
In the disaster-hit regions of Sichuan, there are a lot of babies whose mothers are dead, missing, or badly injured. Because of the terrain, it’s hard to truck in material, and in some areas milk powder is probably hard to come by. One female cop in a place called Jiang You has stepped up to the plate and started nursing babies whose mothers can’t be found!
Here’s a picture that I took from Sohu.com:
May 18th, 2008 at 12:31 am
When they found her, she was already dead. To their bewilderment, she seemed to have adopted a very strange posture to brace for the fatal impact. Deep under rubble, on her hands and knees, She looks like she was kowtowing. Only her back was crushed …and she was long gone…
The rescue team moved on, for they must try and find other victims who are still alive and they were racing against time. They would come back later to handle the corpses, of which they saw too many around there. Those alive have priority.
Before moving out, the leader of the team struck a stick against the shattered concrete column as a last attempt to alert any potential survivor. And then he heard it…
He cried out back to his retreating team, “Come back!there’s somebody down here!”
They began to reach beneath the “kowtowing” woman, and discovers under her protective canopy of propped-up arms a little baby, barely half a year old. He was still sleeping. And he was untouched. The mom sacrificed her life to save her baby.
One doctor unwrapped the swaddling clothes around the baby, intending to give him a check-up. Then a cell phone dropped out. One message was found left on the screen of the phone, the mom must have typed it in the last moments of her life, which goes, “My dear baby,if you can survive this, I want you to know that I love you.”
Everybody present started to cry…
May 18th, 2008 at 1:40 am
I heard on the news that they rescued someone else today, at like 3:30. I couldn’t understand everything, but I think one of the person’s legs was badly injured by the pressure of debris on it.