What if someone said to you…
20 September, 2007 by doula
Would you please get up and go eat your food in the toilet.
I’d be quite taken aback. Wouldn’t you? I mean that is pretty revolting but it seems that our society doesn’t think twice when expecting a breastfeeding mom to do just that: feed her baby in a toilet.
Ever noticed in a shopping mall how there are clear signs for spaces to bottle feeding your baby but no indication where a nursing mother should go.
I think it is time that we raise awareness and start getting some change done. Every public place should have a room for lactating mom’s with a clear international symbol illustrated for all to see. The alternative otherwise is to ask others eating in public to please take their food and go eat in the toilet!
