Is it an obscenity to breastfeed a baby in a public place? If a child (your child) is hungry and you find yourself in that situation, in which it is imperative to provide their food, you would surely breastfeed.
Cindy Piccard went to visit the famous Prado Museum in Madrid with her 5-month-old baby, the baby was hungry and began to cry claiming her food, without thinking, his mother prepared to breastfeed him in room 16B, right in front of La Maja Nude's painting (it is a funny scene but tender at the same time).
One of the museum guards addressed her in a tone that is not appropriate in a person who must deal with the public and told her that this could not be done there. The caretaker indicated the right places to breastfeed the baby, the sink or the cafeteria were the recommended options. Logically, the mother asked him if the prohibition was contemplated in the norms of the museum, to which the guard answered yes. The mother made the timely claim to the museum's concierge, at first everyone proved her right, but after a few days, she was informed of the invalidity of the claim because it was forbidden to breastfeed, arguing that it could bother the other visitors from the museum.
We are amazed, what should be the cradle of good manners, knowledge, understanding ... has become a place of uneducated, impolite and liars. We refer to the caretakers of course, there is no law that contemplates the prohibition they mentioned, they should be denounced for preventing Cindy from her right to breastfeed the baby.
Now, once the news jumps to the media, the Museum management is unconcerned claiming that it must have been a personal initiative of the watchman. The management of the museum is responsible simply for a simple reason, in the case of being true what they indicate, they are guilty of not properly training who has to be dealing with the public, they are guilty of not instructing them on laws that may relate to situations that can be lived in a museum and are guilty of not properly choosing the staff.
This is a situation that must be aired and made known so that in the future no one sees a mother's right to breastfeed her baby.
