You (hopefully) wouldn’t banish an adult from a social event to eat somewhere else, so why do breastfeeding mums still get this treatment?
While progress is being made with how nursing mums are treated, there’s still a way to go.
Take one dad , for example, who recently suggested to a guest at his three-year-old’s birthday party that she feed her two-year-old in the hallway.
Luckily, having got some feedback on Reddit , he probably sees the error of his ways now.
“Since it was my three-year-old’s birthday, we had a party consisting of kids from the ages of 2-15,” he wrote.
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His wife was away on a business trip, but had invited a colleague and her toddler son.
“Colleague’s baby apparently got hungry, colleague straight up started to breastfeed him on the dining table, not even a feet away from a few teenagers,” he wrote.
“There were about 20 kids, I had made a massive table in our backyard. I told her it would be better if she breastfeed her daughter in the room or the hallway since I felt it was inappropriate because of the age demographic of the party.
“She just kept glaring at me and fed the baby to her t**’s content while the teenagers right beside her sat in awkward silence.”
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He pointed out “I would be fine with it in public,” and then added, “She proceeded to bitch about me to my wife the whole lunch break later.”
If it was support he was after, he came to the wrong place.
The responses were unanimous – he’d been out of order.
“Why is it OK in public but not OK there?” was one of the more measured responses.
However, his account of what happened took a dark turn.
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While the dad might have made an error in judgement, he later claimed he’d received threatening messages, which everyone agreed was in no way deserved.
