It seems incredible, but in the 21st century there are still people who see it inappropriate for a mother to breastfeed her baby in public. Something as normal and natural as feeding a child is seen as obscenity or some kind of provocation, but obviously this intention is in the eyes that look.
There are few cases of mothers who are expelled from places such as restaurants, swimming pools or airplanes for breastfeeding their babies and we have also known cases of mothers who are asked to cover themselves while they are breastfeeding. This is what they asked Melanie Dudley, a mother of three children from Texas, while feeding her four-month-old baby. This was his great reaction: he covered himself but covered his head.
A man approached the table at the restaurant where he was breastfeeding his baby and asked him to cover himself. Without thinking, the mother covered her head with her breastfeeding cover and continued breastfeeding as if nothing.
Her husband took a photo at that time and a friend shared it on her Facebook page receiving thousands of samples of support and admiration:
The mother explained to Babble that she simply did it, without any intention.
"I usually cover myself when I am breastfeeding in public because I am generally quite shy about this. I started breastfeeding my baby with the breastfeeding cover and it was very hot. Then I decided to take it off and I thought: 'I'm on vacation, I don't know anyone here and I'm with his back to the restaurant. "
One thing is that you decide to cover yourself because you feel uncomfortable and a very different one to be asked by a stranger because he may feel offended. Is The only mother who has the right to decide how and where she will feed her baby.
Breastfeeding in public is legal
Perhaps the man did not know that asking the mother to cover herself was committing an illegality, since where she lives, after being approved in the last two states, finally in the 50 states of the United States it is legal to breastfeed in public.
This implies that the woman who breastfeeds in public places should be protected and never ashamed or unbelievable, although there will still be time to stop being frowned upon. That is a matter of changing mentalities, not laws.
