There are various ways a person can try to soothe a baby - from rocking them gently from side-to-side, to making sure they aren't hungry or need a nappy change.
However, one woman was left horrified after her mum-in-law went above what is appropriate in the hopes of calming her baby down.
Taking to Reddit, the mum explained that she had trusted her mum-in-law to babysit her newborn son while she ran errands for a few hours. However, when the baby started to get "cranky", the trusted family member had tried to "soothe him" by attempting to "breastfeed" - despite not lactating.
