i think that is disgusting! i am sorry but feding another woman's baby!

i can't imagine being in that situation and not doing what she did.

i'm sure the baby was frail and dying and starving.

The amount of money we spend on new sports stadiums or clothing for dogs or the numerous other random things we spend money one while human suffering around the world or even in our own country amazes and saddens me. I'm not laying blame with this statement, I'm guilty of it too.

I agree with kmckay - I can't imagine walking past the child. There has been a lost of discussion about breastfeeding other peoples babies on this site and others, so I know their are a lot of opinions about this, but Scotlandrulz: we drink cows milk - how is it disgusting to give another child your human milk. Also, there is a long human tradition of wetnurses.

Though when I first read the story I thought - oh, a new NGO: Breast Without Borders

add this to another reason why i think salma is the best example for people to try to aspire to be.

well seeing as i am a teenager, i think it is disgusting. i would feel sorry for the baby and i wouldnt leave it unattended to or walk by it but i would feed it.

cows milk has naturally been given to us, we dont drink women's mild and have it with our cereal.

Our use of cows milk is anything but "natural". Human milk is meant for humans - specifically developing babies. Cow's milk is meant for baby cows. This is "natural". Human's drinking cow's milk that is full of hormones is just something that is socially acceptable. Not that I'm promoting the idea that we *should* drink human milk in our cereal. But, there is nothing "UNnatural" about a baby drinking human milk. In fact, it is far more unnatural for that baby to drink cow or goat milk when human milk is available.

I saw this someplace else. I think it was very selfless thing to do. Scotlandrulz you didn't have to write you were a teenager we could already tell.

"cows milk has naturally been given to us, we dont drink women's mild and have it with our cereal."

This is the funniest and yet most ignorant thing I have ever read on this site. Cow's milk, especially in the form we buy in the store, was not "naturally given to us." Human milk is what is "naturally given" to humans.

Good for Salma.

scotlandrulz, I'm sorry but you give teenagers a bad rep with your views on breastfeeding. When I was a teenager, I would not have thought that was disgusting. How awful.
Anyways, seeing now that I am not a teenager and the breastfeeding mother of a healthy baby girl, I admire Salma so greatly for this. How could you not be moved by these poor children? It really makes you stop and think.

thank you 'sarahinparis' for quickly putting that out there! cows milk=natural is what greggie said, ignorant yet amusing.

cows milk is natural for baby cows.

and by the way, we are the only species on the planet that
1. drinks another mammal's milk and
2. drinks milk as adults.

and breast without borders has me laughing! you're on to something!

i hope she fed this baby before she picked up her smoking habit again!

i think it's a beautiful thing what salma did, the heartbreaking part is knowing that that child still probably won't live until it's first birthday like salma's daughter has.

It is also incredibly unnatural to drink cow's milk, we are the only animals that drink another animals milk, and many cultures think that we are weird for even drinking cows milk.

I don't think any breastfeeding moms can walk away from a sick and possibly starving baby without doing what is most natural and nurturing. Does anyone remember a story about a mom who breastfed 7 other kids besides her own baby during the earthquake in China last year?

so much grief and heartache in the world. if you are so naive that you consider this outlandish behavior, consider yourself blessed.

it's good to see celebrities bringing attention to something other than themselves. i had idea that tetanus caused so many deaths.

It is so infuriating to me that women are discouraged from doing what is best for their child's health simply because their culture believes they can't have sex with a breastfeeding women. Even if it were true, it would be incredibly selfish. I have a lot of respect for the people there trying to help in Sierra Leone, but it must be incredibly frustrating to try and help people who refuse to help themselves.

I appalud Salma for how she took care of this poor innocent baby. There might not be much to help the little one however she did the one thing she knew could help the child in the meantime. I do not find it disgusting; the child was in need. Now if it was her friend's child well, that is where a problem would arise. However those are different situations, different actions. This child was in sever neeed of some nutrients.

I would make a statement about the "cows milk being natural for us" however this has already been adressed by the others on this thread. I have nothing else to add.

(Also, Kmckay: Greggie was quoting another poster; that was not her own statement.)

* applaud

I think kmckay meant that, as I stated, it was ignorant and amusing at the same time. Not that I made the "cow's milk is natural" statement.

I would do the same.
Shame on you Scotlandrulz - let's hope that by the time you mature your thoughts will too.

yes... greggie you are right! i was agreeing with your statement... i know you wouldn't have made that kind of statement!!!

The first thing I thought when I read this was that she managed to knock Angie out of the top celebrity humanitarian slot in one simple action. Perhaps not, but that was an extremely compassionate move on her part.

Wow- amazing! Don't blame 'being a teenager' for your way of thinking- that's the least of your problems.

I have been reading this site for some time now. I am 24, engaged, but don't have any children. I am very careful about what I post here, because I do not have children and I don't pass judgment if I feel that what I'm thinking is based on a lack of experience. Perhaps scotlanddruiz should consider that before commenting.

Now, for my opinion. At this point in my life, I am slightly weirded out by the thought of breastfeeding a baby, but I would think that if you have that ability, it would be cruel to walk away when that baby was so needy. I imagine that my opinion on breastfeeding will change when I have children, but for now, I respect Salma for taking action instead of just being photographed doing 'humanitarian' things.

Okay I haven't read all the comments yet, and I'm sure other people have said this, but to you people who say that breastfeeding another woman's *starving* child is disgusting all I can say is that it is YOU who is disgusting!!! If you were a breastfeeding mother and you could nourish and comfort a suffering child you wouldn't do it because it is "gross"?! You are a prime example of what is wrong with the world: people are so self-possessed that they can't think past their own little world for two seconds to see that they can help another human. I'm so livid right now I can't even type anything else.

She's got big boobs... more than enough milk to share, I think. Besides, maybe she gave the baby she fed some of the immunity from her milk for a little while. She may have helped that little one fend off an infection it would have otherwise died from.

I respect her for this. I know that her breastmilk doesn't provide the nutrients this baby needs because the baby is so young and the milk is different as your baby ages, but it is still a wonderful thing for her to do.

wow...kudos for her for going with her heart at that time. and not thinking about nothing else but that baby..

If I were in Salma's position, I probably would have done the same thing too. I really applaud her for bringing attention to the cause and Unicef for implementing change.

Think about it, if you just gave up 1 starbucks beverage a week ($3) it can cover 42 tetanus vaccines, if you donated that much a week for a month, it would cover 168 vaccines!!! If all of us sugar readers did this... i think we could save the world! We can donate here:
http://www.supportunicef.org/site/pp.asp?c=9fLEJSOALpE&b=1023561

Just a sidenote, breast size has nothing to do with how much milk one does or does not produce.

Thank God, Greggie! My kids would have starved!!!

Thats sad the way other people in other countries are living and how we sometimes may tend not to appreciate what we have. But that was so nice of her to do that =)I would have done the same ..if I were able to. Im so glad she is out there doing something good to help.

I think that FAR from disgusting, that was a beautiful act. Our breast are made to feed babies. There is nothing more generous than sharing this gift with an innocent baby. Breastmilk is a wonderful life sustaining and sometimes life saving substance. When people undergoing chemo can tolerate no other food, often the ONLY thing they CAN keep down is breastmilk. The story brought tears to my eyes. Thanks for sharing.

I only have a problem with this, because she is a smoker.

Nearly all the risks of smoking and breastfeeding involve the secondhand smoke, not what it's the breastmilk itself. If she wasn't smoking around the child then breastfeeding it shouldn't have posed a risk. At the very least, the small risk it posed would've been wildly outweighed by the benefits the immunities and vitamins offered, since the formula the baby would be getting would likely be wildly inferior to our commercial formula.

That's remarkable and as long as its safe for Salma to do that is an amazing thing she did. I only feel bad the child won't have access to food regularly.

Salma is a heavy smoker , she shouldn't breastfeed her daughter and anybody baby .. shame of you salma

it just goes to show you what an amazing and compassionate human being salma is.

It is actually BETTER for a smoker to breastfeed than it is for a smoker to formula-feed when it comes to her own child. It's obviously best to not smoke at all, but breastfeeding will at least counteract a lot of the second-hand smoke risks that formula can't touch.

It is ironic that someone who is so vocal about doing everything we can for children's health then smokes around her own child, but that's another story.

I don't understand how people can think that breast milk is discusting, yet feed it to their own children. If it was so bad and gross, why would you do it to your own children? It is a beautiful product of nature, koodos to her for sharing!

Let's see...cows milk natural? Hahaha!
Human babies need to stay away from dairy until their digestion system can handle the milk proteins.

As a nursing mother, I feel what Salma did was wonderful and selfless. Not disgusting at all.

I don't know if I could do it, but I was not in her position. She is amazing!

Of course a person with "rulz" in their screen name would think it's disgusting *insert eye roll here*. If only more people were as selfless as Selma. Maybe there would be less pain and suffering in the world.

I think you guys are being a bit harsh towards scotlandrulz, I'm in my early twenties, I don't have any kids and the thought of a child sucking milk from my boobs absolutely disgusts me right now. However, I know that when I do have children, I will breastfeed, and will most likely grow to love it. Its great that some people with or without kids love breastfeeding, for the rest of us, I think motherhood will have to put those feelings there.

I don't think the attack was in response to her thinking that breast feeding is somewhat "yucky". The attack is because she took issue with Salma feeding "someone else's kid". She was disgusted because Salma was helping an innocent, suffering baby. THIS is why the attack, not because she finds breastfeeding in general gross.

Although others have already said it is different ways, I have to add the obvious: a baby under the age of one is not even allowed to drink cow's milk because they cannot digest it. For an infant that young, it's either the breast or formula, nothing else, and any doctor will tell you that. So much for cow's milk being a "natural" choice.

So unless Salma happened to be carting around a can of the exact right type of formula suited for that particular baby's needs and digestive system AND had some clean fresh water to mix it with AND had a clean sterile bottle in which to feed it...or she could have offered the sick, starving baby her breast milk--which is automatically all of those things.

The saddest part of this whole article--other than the ignorance in readership it reveals--is that even despite that kind and selfless act that poor infant probably has a very minimal chance of survival. But who wouldn't do what they could, if they could? I only hope I would act in the same way.

You know what's disgusting? Immaturity on a website regarding issues about women. If you can't handle it, stay off. There's nothing disgusting about the act of kindness and love from one human to another.

I have always liked Salma Hayek, and this makes me like her even more. I think it's laudable that she breastfed a child who needed it. And like Shannolyn says, I hope that I would do the same. I think a lot of people in wealthy countries aren't aware of how many children suffer from easily preventable diseases. Kudos to Salma for helping to raise awareness.

Bravo Salma!

bravo for salma and bravo for all you girls supporting that amazing action...

Hey, I'm a teenager also, and in no way do I agree with what the other girl said. It's rudely ignorant. Sure, it's not something that we see everyday, or are somewhat used to, but if you were facing the same dilemma would you just say no? I'd find that terribly selfish. I couldn't agree more with azh and starbright, bravo Salma! Way to rise up in the moment.