A breastfeeding mother was forced to stand for half an hour on a packed rush hour train because no one would offer her a seat.
Kate Hitchens, 32, was travelling home to Essex from London with her six-month-old son Charlie on Tuesday and “couldn’t get her head around” how inconsiderate everyone on the train was.
In an angry Instagram post, she shared a photo of herself standing on the packed train and wrote that commuters saw her nursing a “wriggling and writhing” 20lb Charlie but did nothing to help her.
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wow, a first world problem!. get over it. you seem to be able to grab your phone out of your bag, whilst breastfeeding and take the pic and then send it.
It is a first world problem, because when I was travelling in developing and third world countries, while pregnant and when carrying a toddler (different times), I was offered seats on packed trains every single time.
People on public transport in big cities are jerks. I once had to physically restrain someone from jumping into a seat that I had reserved for an elderly lady who was struggling to not fall over on the train.