Over the weekend, I got my very first dirty look while breastfeeding in public.
I laughed it off, because I am super awesome like that.
But afterwards, I got down right pissed off.
MC was off in the optometrist getting fitted for contacts when Abi decided right then and there that she was hungry. When hunger strikes that girl, she feels it with every inch of her being and will let you know that it's basically a matter of a life and death - she needed a nipple in her mouth five minutes ago and why aren't you a mind reader and OH MY GOD, MUM I'M WASTING AWAY!
Now, I do breastfeed in public but I am not someone to wave it all in your face, look at me I'm lactating! I wear two layers so I don't flash a whole lot of skin and I tend to find somewhere off to the side that's quiet and so it doesn't matter so much when Abi want to play silly buggers thus exposing my boobs to the world. Please note however, this is for my own comfort and not necessarily yours. My public tit flashing days are over.
This time though, I didn't have to option of finding somewhere quiet to feed because I left my phone at home and I needed a place to sit where MC would be able to see us when he was finished. Feeding on a lounge in the middle of the walkway it was.
You know what? No one noticed. And why should they? All they could see was this;
But there's always got to be one asshole.
One pervy asshole who looks especially hard and just has to let their disdain be known.
And Saturday's pervy asshole came in the form of a middle aged mother, of all people. She looked down, rolled her eyes and shook her head while making one of those "Well I never!" scoffing noises.
And Saturday's pervy asshole came in the form of a middle aged mother, of all people. She looked down, rolled her eyes and shook her head while making one of those "Well I never!" scoffing noises.
I smiled at her.
Water off a duck's back, baby!
But later on, I felt pretty pissed. Had that have been first time Mama Holly feeding Amelia, I would have been so unsure of feeding my 12 week old baby out in open like that so suffice to say, I would have felt SO embarrassed to be on the receiving end of that asshole's dirty look. Maybe it would turned me off nursing in public even?
With the "Well I never" crew walking the street, is it any wonder why Gen Y's find the whole concept of breastfeeding 'embarrassing'?
If you're not a fan of breastfeeding in public, whatever. I'm not going to tell you that my baby's right to eat is paramount to whatever you're feeling but I am going to tell you that if you don't like, you have the right to simply look away. What you do not have the right to do is comment, glare or make piss ass noises at my baby and I.
The same can and will be said for a Mama, bottle feeding her baby.
Leave us to care for our babies in peace.
End of discussion, really.
