We are in 2016. We are supposed to be in a moment in history when we should have assumed certain things as normal, and breastfeeding is one of them. Come on, the first animals that reached the standing position achieved it 4 million years ago, and being our predecessors, they were already breastfeeding.
He homo sapiens (we) exist from almost 200 thousand years ago, and they were also mammals. Well, with the time that has passed since then we should already be clear that it is normal for a baby to drink breast milk, and to do it where it requires it, as dependent rearing.
Well, a couple of days ago a woman got a tremendous surprise when, as a result of her misunderstanding and (allow me) stupidity, a woman sprayed her with her own breast milk in response to his request that he be breastfed elsewhere because she distracted her husband.
He explained it on Facebook anonymously
The most curious thing is that the mother's gesture did not make her reflect in the slightest. She was outraged and decided to vent on social networks, explaining on a page, anonymously, what had just happened.
As we read in The Sun, it happened in Datford, a town in England. The woman posted a complaint on a Facebook page in the city, to show her discontent, seek support and try to reach that nursing woman.
She explained that she was sending her message to that woman in the park who decided to sit near her husband and son, who are easily distracted, to breastfeed your baby. And he criticized her for having such an inordinate reaction just because she came to ask him to breastfeed in a private place. Apparently, as this woman explains, he told her to screw up and then sprayed her with several jets of milk from her breasts.
Obviously we should know the other version of the facts, that of the mother who sat down to breastfeed on a park bench, quietly, and suddenly receives an unexpected visit from a woman who asks her to go somewhere else to breastfeed because it distracts her husband and son. I imagine that he should have refused, hallucinated, and that this woman should have insisted, until the baby's mother should have thought "look aunt, I don't have to explain why my baby has the right to breastfeed here."
And Facebook reacted… against her
He hoped that people would prove him right, that he would tell him that no one deserves a stream of breast milk and that yes, it is normal for that mother to have taken her baby and taken her to another place so as not to disturb her wonderful family . But no, they told him the opposite. Than it was she who had to feel ashamed of acting like this, which acted as an "ignorant" and an "obsolete"; even several nursing mothers intervened as affected explaining their cases, that they had also been victims of people who had made them feel uncomfortable breastfeeding in public.
And the husband also received his dose of criticism because, who has the problem, the woman who breastfeeds or the man who is distracted looking at her?
Finally, they reminded him that an Equality Act of 2010 protects breastfed babies by causing it is illegal for anyone to urge a woman who breastfeeds to leave a public place like a cafeteria, shop or public transport.
