Shamed by a mother and her daughter. The mother maybe being in her 40s the daughter around the age of 16. Im totally assuming that but that was my guess.
Anyway here is what happened...
Its school holidays at the moment so the parents room at the local shopping centre was standing room only and Mr.15 months wanted to feed. Rather than allow him to get more gumpy the more hungry he got (typical male) I went out to the couches in the middle of the centre and starting to feed him, discretely of course.
I saw this mother and her daughter walk past and the daughter tapped her mothers arm and pointed at me. *here we go*
The mother charged in my direction.
"That is not on" she spits at me,
"Go and do that where my daughter and I dont have to see you"
Quite simply and politely I replied,
"My baby is hungry, so im going to feed him, im sorry if it offends you but him feeding is whats most important"
Angrily she points at Oscar,
"That is not a baby, he is way to old to be feeding off your tit"
Im starting to get a little more frustrated now as I also have my four year old sitting by my side,
"He is my baby, he will be my baby and this is how we choose to feed"
The mother crosses her arms and said
"So if he was still "your baby" at 7 would you keep feeding him"
"If thats what he wanted"
She scoffs and rolls her eyes, looking as though she was done, when her daughter chimed in and blew me away,
"And you look like a slut"
To which her mother laughed and gave her a hi five as they turned to walk off.
I had my four year old with me, i was discreetly feeding my 15 month old. I am not a person who is overly comfortable in my own skin but I am confident while I feed. The dig at how I looked, hurt me. The fact that mother thought that was appropriate to say to another human, another female, another mother just hurts me to my core.
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| Todays outfit of choice. Apparently inappropriate |
A lovely old lady who I had seen watching the interaction came up to me and gave me a hug and encouraged me to continue feeding Oscar as long as I want and ensured me that I looked beautiful.
That is what we should be doing! Loving and supporting one another. Whatever your choices as a parent, happy, healthy children are what is most important.
So watch this space! Im working on something, a wind of change. A way to support others to support each other.
