Breastfeeding in Public Is No Matter Of Shame!

If you watched the movie ‘Bahubali’ in theatres last year, you must remember the phenomenal breastfeeding in public sequence where Sivagamini is breastfeeding her babies in tandem. If you have seen it, you must also remember that the audience, including women, got uncomfortable during that phase – everyone went, ‘Oh my God, what did I just see!’.

Everyone in the theatre avoided looking at their friends and behaved like that toddler who has been caught doing something wrong. It’s awkward, we may agree, but the question we are asking is. Why should it be? What is so wrong about moms breastfeeding in public?

But change, as they say begins at home. So we as mothers, need to change how we treat breastfeeding in public and then help others who are against breastfeeding in public and change their outlook too. Instead of getting uncomfortable ourselves and making others uncomfortable,  we need to handle it aiding moms with good breastfeeding in public tips.

Let’s look at these super simple  breastfeeding in public techniques…

Breastfeeding is your child’s right. Those are your breasts, your baby and your rights! You don’t need anyone’s ‘permission’ for breastfeeding. So stop feeling awkward and ashamed of the act.

No, it is not! It’s nothing close to being blasphemous!

You have to get over the stigma and your own embarrassment of breastfeeding in public and the constant feeling of ‘people are staring at me’

Because no one and NO One deserves to eat their meals in a stinky place like the toilet

Or under conditions that make feeding as well as breathing a misery! No one deserves to feed while suffocating under a cover.

Be there for them, every minute and every time, irrespective of where you are, because remember, the baby comes above all!

It is the people who need to get over it and stop sexualizing breastfeeding in public!

And if they continue to do so, you know what to say to them haters!

It’s not a crime to breastfeed in public, neither is breastfeeding in public illegal. It is what your child deserves. It is what you deserve.

So say yes to breastfeeding in public. Of all the people, you have to be ‘alright’ with it, before you go ahead and do it. In the beginning, it may be a little embarrassing but don’t let the embarrassment get the better of you or your baby. Enjoy the phase while it lasts because some of the most memorable moments of this mother-baby bond happen while breastfeeding in public!

Happy Breastfeeding Mommies!

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