Fellow parents understand the struggles of dealing with hungry and demanding toddlers, which is why one mom was stunned when a fellow mom and her teenage daughter publicly shamed her for feeding her hungry baby.
Mother-of-two Kate Louise, who writes the blog Claim Your Mumjo, was recently out at a local shopping center with her four-year-old and 15-month-old sons when she noticed her baby boy was getting fussy and wanted to feed.
“Rather than allow him to get more grumpy the more hungry he got (typical male) I went out to the couches in the middle of the centre and starting to feed him, discretely of course,” Louise wrote on her blog. “I saw this mother and her daughter walk past and the daughter tapped her mother’s arm and pointed at me. *here we go*.”
“The mother charged in my direction.’That is not on’ she spits at me, ‘Go and do that where my daughter and I don’t have to see you.’ Quite simply and politely I replied, ‘My baby is hungry, so I’m going to feed him, I’m sorry if it offends you but him feeding is what’s most important.’,” Louise said.
Not only was the stranger offended that Louise was breastfeeding in public, but she was horrified when she got closer and saw how big baby Oscar was.”‘That is not a baby, he is way too old to be feeding off your tit,'” the rude stranger commented.
By that point, Louise was getting frustrated but calmly explained that Oscar was her baby, and she would feed him however she thought was best.
“She scoffs and rolls her eyes, looking as though she was done, when her daughter chimed in and blew me away,’And you look like a slut.’ To which her mother laughed and gave her a high five as they turned to walk off.
“A lovely old lady who I had seen watching the interaction came up to me and gave me a hug and encouraged me to continue feeding Oscar as long as I want and ensured me that I looked beautiful. That is what we should be doing! Loving and supporting one another. Whatever your choices as a parent, happy, healthy children are what is most important,” she wrote.
“I had my four-year-old with me, I was discreetly feeding my15-month-oldd. I am not a person who is overly comfortable in my own skin but I am confident while I feed. The dig at how I looked, hurt me. The fact that mother thought that was appropriate to say to another human, another female, another mother just hurts me to my core,” the devastated mother explained.
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Mom Called A Slut For Breastfeeding 15-Month-Old In Public is an article from: LifeDaily