We thought we were in the clear but this week saw the media reporting full throttle on booby-milk stories.
A good thing never lasts, or so it seems.
For a whole five minutes there was no mainstream media stories shaming breastfeeding mums on their incredibly insensitive decision to feed their babies from their bodies.
Then BAM this week there’s story after story about some random woman’s baby feeders offending some poor ignorant sole.
And these were not just run of the mill “why do women breastfeed” stories, we’re talking sprinkler boobs, people getting kicked out of restaurants and compete invasion of privacy social media posts.
Connor Kendall, one poor woman, from Indiana, in the US, was forced to defend herself publicly after a man she didn’t even know posted a picture of her feeding her child all over social media.
Then we saw uproar over Josephine Fenton, a woman who simply wanted to try on her dream wedding dress at Jean Jackson Couture store , but was told she had to feed “outside on the street” in case she somehow squirted milk on all of the dresses in the store.
I mean, sure if you’re feeding you my get a little on your own shirt but when I fed I sure as hell never squirted anyone or anything across the room from me.
A little closer to home we also heard the story this week about Jessica-Anne Allen, the owner of Cheese and Biscuits Cafe in Rockhampton Queensland, who had to tell a customer to leave after and a middle aged man complained about a women “not covering up” when she fed her baby at the café.
“It should never have been an issue in the first place because it is a form of adult bullying and is actually against the law to approach a breastfeeding mother and ask her to stop or cover up,” Allen said in an interview with Goodfood.
And she’s right, it never should have happened.
