diff --git a/Sources/NIOCore/AsyncSequences/NIOAsyncWriter.swift b/Sources/NIOCore/AsyncSequences/NIOAsyncWriter.swift
index f0fc90378d5..89cb7065d5c 100644
--- a/Sources/NIOCore/AsyncSequences/NIOAsyncWriter.swift
+++ b/Sources/NIOCore/AsyncSequences/NIOAsyncWriter.swift
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ import DequeModule
 import NIOConcurrencyHelpers
 import _NIODataStructures
 
+@usableFromInline
+let yieldIDCounter = ManagedAtomic<UInt64>(0)
+
 /// The delegate of the ``NIOAsyncWriter``. It is the consumer of the yielded writes to the ``NIOAsyncWriter``.
 /// Furthermore, the delegate gets informed when the ``NIOAsyncWriter`` terminated.
 ///
@@ -435,13 +438,12 @@ extension NIOAsyncWriter {
             }
 
             @usableFromInline
-            /* private */ internal let _yieldIDCounter = ManagedAtomic<UInt64>(0)
 
             @inlinable
             func generateUniqueYieldID() -> YieldID {
                 // Using relaxed is fine here since we do not need any strict ordering just a
                 // unique ID for every yield.
-                .init(value: self._yieldIDCounter.loadThenWrappingIncrement(ordering: .relaxed))
+                .init(value: yieldIDCounter.loadThenWrappingIncrement(ordering: .relaxed))
             }
         }