Viral video shows dad breastfeeding his newborn baby after wife was too sick to do so

A father is making headlines over photos showing him breastfeeding his newborn daughter at the hospital.

Maxamillian Neubauer of Wisconsin posted photos and a video of himself breastfeeding his daughter and they went viral.

Neubauer explained that his wife had complications after birth.
After undergoing an emergency Cesarean section, she was taken to the ICU (intensive care unit).

When the baby Rosalie was born, she was handed over to her father.

His wife April had expressed her wishes of giving their baby skin to skin contact immediately after the birth. Since she was unable to do so, Maxamillian stepped in.

Cybil Martin-Dennehy, a registered nurse at Door County Medical Center, offered the father a chance to breastfeed the baby and he agreed to try it once.

The nurse fitted the father with a plastic nipple shield, a feeding tube, a syringe, and some formula. She placed the nipple shield on the father’s chest under his “mom” tattoos and the formula dripped into it as the baby sucked.

April said that she is very grateful to her husband for stepping in and taking over her role when she wasn’t able to do it.