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Wet nurse feeds quake babies
May 23, 2008
A policewoman in China's earthquake-hit Sichuan province is breast-feeding orphans and babies whose mothers are dead, missing, or too traumatised to feed them. It all started after Jiang Xiaojuan saved a 3-month-old baby from under the rubble shortly after the quake struck on May 12.
After finding out that the baby's mother was missing, Jiang - who has a six-month-old child - decided to breast-feed the infant and now spends her days breast-feeding other babies at local shelters. More than 80,000 people are confirmed dead or missing after China's worst earthquake in decades. The disaster has orphaned thousands of children.
--Reuters
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