A mother is criticised for breastfeeding her child in a public place: her testimony makes one reflect
What's wrong with a mother breastfeeding her baby in a public place when she knows her child needs to fed or comforted? Of course, not everyone likes to witness such an act in a public place, but the maternal instinct, and the urgent needs of the newborn, cannot be postponed at all. For this reason a little more understanding and empathy towards these mothers should always be put in place, there is no need for unnecessary cruelty and discrimination.
via RTL
Cruelty that a French woman instead suffered in a public place, after she felt the need to breastfeed her child in front of other people. A very negative experience that Maylis, a mother from Bordeaux in France, shared when she revealed what she happened to her and which had left her speechless. The woman said she was in line to collect a package; her six-month-old son began to cry and persistently seekng out his source of comfort, mother's milk; all Maylis could do at that moment was to stand aside momentarily from the line and breastfeed him: "I was wearing suitable clothes, which open at the sides, to try to do it in a really discreet way, and at that point too, since there were other people present, I hid under my jacket, but then a woman came up and started insulting me with these words: 'Aren't you ashamed? This new generation is only here to show off! You are a mom, you should plan your child's meals, you should have done this at home, it's not a tasteful thing to do in public! '
But it wasn't over for the poor mom ...
The extremely aggressive woman approached her mother and slapped her in front of everyone, while the customers who were in line to collect a package or who were simple bystanders did nothing to defend her; an affront that Maylis experienced worse than the slap given by that rude woman: "Nobody defended me. [...] I would have liked to react, but with a baby in her arms, what could I do? Worse still, an elderly woman congratulated herself. with whom he had just attacked me!"
This mother felt humiliated not so much by the violent act by the woman in line, as by the lack of support from other people: no one had taken up her defense, a sign that in our society there is still a stigma towards breastfeeding mothers in public places. When will this unacceptable stigma end once and for all?
