As you may all be aware, I am a young Mum and was thrown into the deep end in becoming a Mother and didn’t know where to turn or who to turn to when it came to Breastfeeding advice because I found it embarrassing and felt like I shouldn’t be talking about these things.
I remember my first ever-negative experience with breastfeeding, and that was sitting in the Doctors with a scream 3 week old, who of course was screaming out of hunger. So I did what I thought was right and got my breast out and fed her. Initially I had a muslin wrap over my shoulder and feeding her, but this fell and I had my hands way to full to cover it up. I had a man across from me make a remark along the lines of- “ Cover that shit up, nobody wants to see that!” You know what I did? I detached Hayley of my breast and almost ran to the car (I would have to if I didn’t have a newborn in my hands) and when I got to the car I cried- and cried. I was mortified and so embarrassed I didn’t want to take my little girl out of the house EVER!From then on in with Hayley I just used to express milk at home and feed her with a bottle while out. This is where Medela was my savior. It was the closest thing to a baby suckling I could find and didn’t make me sore afterwards. It took 3 different brands of breast pumps before I found Medela.
It is ok for a male to go to the strippers and watch her flap her boobs around but it is not ok for a Mother to feed her baby in public? Why is this so wrong, why has this become such a thing?
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