I am sure there will come a time, perhaps in a few years, when this news will stop being produced because breastfeeding a baby will no longer be considered dirty or obscene. Meanwhile, we have to keep regretting that it happens and keep complaining to show rejection towards those people who still don't understand that babies have to be able to eat wherever they are.
If a few days ago they invited a mother to breastfeed in the sink, in a shoe store of a shopping center here in Spain, something similar has happened in the IKEA from Manchester where to another mom He was ordered to stop breastfeeding his 7-week-old baby because another customer had complained.
They told him that he should go to the breastfeeding area
His name is Katy Scrigna and he was at IKEA, feeding his seven-week-old daughter, when trade security staff approached to ask him to will move to the breastfeeding area.
Apparently, to go shopping decided to put the baby in a baby carrier, so that he could be more calm and, in case of crying, could breastfeed without altering the visit to the furniture store. It was enough to take out the chest and "plug it in" to be able to continue walking without problem.
And this is precisely what he did: when the girl asked for a tit, he offered it as he always does when they are away from home, and followed his own. Little could he think that a while later the security guard would appear to tell him that there was a breastfeeding area to do what I was doing, and that the store's policy was not to breastfeed in the store, but in that area.
The nursing room is not mandatory
All large stores should have a breastfeeding room for those moms who are going to make several purchases, who are going to spend a lot of time and who may need to breastfeed their baby or child at some time. They are in case a mother wants to use them, but they are not there for mothers to use them.
If a mother prefers not to go to this room, because she already thinks it is good to breastfeed while walking or if she is already comfortable breastfeeding in another place of commerce, she is not doing anything that should be censored and, logically, she should not be invited to attend to the lactation zone because then she would be discriminated against because of her condition as a nursing mother.
For this reason, Katy wrote on Facebook a public complaint in which she explained everything that happened: the guard explained that another customer had complained when she saw her breastfeeding her baby in the store and that's why she went to ask him to make use of facilities for nursing mothers. She replied that she understood that she was not obliged to use them, and that she preferred to continue like this, and the guard insisted that she was forbidden and that if she refused she could call the police.
IKEA regrets what happened
A spokesman for the store confirmed that the incident took place and apologized on behalf of the brand, alleging that it was a failure in the communication of trade policies because at IKEA they have a totally open policy regarding breastfeeding. As we read in Daily Mail, they believe that mothers can breastfeed in their stores where they feel more comfortable.
