KUDOS to all MaMas~~

As usual, over the phone, Mama was telling me her 'picks of the day' from the local newspaper she read...

that's why sometimes news back home like, who got raped lah, which shop kena burglary lah, which healthy food is recommended by some professors lah, I can still know.

There's always something weird about mother's thinkings. For some reasons, they will always think that whatever being reported in the paper, someday the same thing will happen to their children too. Thats why even though I'm technically a thousand miles away, if SinChew Daily reported on some ladies' bags got snatched by mat rempits, I'll still get warnings like, "Don't carry handbag go out okay?" "Beware of motorbikers hor!", "Don't walk on street alone har". That's mum.

Today, something she mentioned caught my attention. Right after put down the phone, immediately I went google for pictures.

and so far I've only got these two.

See that baby in the picture? This 13-day-old baby girl, was rescued from the recent China earthquake, 5 days after the shock.

When the troops found her, she laid quietly in her mother's chest and was sucking milk from the breast of the deceased mum.

According to the troops, her mum - this very young lady was found lifeless carrying the baby with both hands and head looking downwards. Her blouse was lifted and she was breastfeeding her baby, which later on allowed the prolonged 5 days survival of the baby without any starvation.

They also said that, from her curled body position, she was believed to be deliberately shielding the baby from the strong force of the quake.

When this babygirl was taken away from her mum's deadbody, she started crying badly.

This gynaecologist, who's a volunteer worker at the site, couldn't hold back her tears when she saw the shocking scene. A dead mother breastfeeding her child in the midst of the collapsed bricks. In other words, a grey deadbody and a pink healthy baby.

She said it was hard to imagine, at the very last moment of life, a mother reacted in such a way to protect her baby, by putting her nipple into her baby's mouth, with the hope that her babygirl can survive.

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My mum's comment was that she could totally understand what the mother did before her death. She said, when one becomes a mother, whatever things happen, the first thing that come through is always their children. then she continued, "haiyah, you all won't understand wan lar! next time when you become mother then you know."