Dad Comfort Nurses Baby and Video Goes Viral

by Emma Williams | September 9, 2018

What is a dad to do? When this adorable little ones mom had to leave, she missed comfort nursing to get to sleep, and despite dad not being able to provide any milk from those nipples, it didn’t stop him from throwing away outdated masculinity ego, and doing what his little baby needed. 

Twitter user SlimeBallDuke_ shared a video of his daughter dozing off while laying over his lap and sucking intently on his nipple. 

“Baby girl was obviously confused,” he wrote on the tweet.

An apparently this is nothing new, according to a paediatric doctor. In 2005, Dr. Jack Newman, a breastfeeding specialist and author of ‘Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers’, told ABC News a father’s nipple was a “good fleshy substitute” to calm a crying baby.

“This is not about producing milk, but strictly calming the baby with the father’s breast,” he said. “They will be just as content sucking on their mother’s breast as sucking on a pacifier, someone’s finger or a bottle nipple as they would their father’s nipple.”

Back in 2014, dads were discussing this on Reddit too, after one dad wrote on the social media network: “Sometimes when my baby is crying in the night and it’s my turn to quiet and soothe her, in desperation I’ll try to get her to suckle at my nipples. Sometimes she latches on, and I find myself experiencing a confusing mixture of joy at the connection between father and daughter, and horror at what I’ve become. Do other dads do this?”

While some dads said they’d never done this before, others revealed they had done this too, or used their finger to get their young baby to suck. “I don’t think it’s very common, but really, whatever works, right?” one dad wrote. “If it soothes her and you don’t mind, I’m not going to judge.

Story First appeared in HuffPost UK

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