It is still happening and it will probably still be happening for a while, until breastfeeding in public is normalized more than it is now that, apparently, is not too much. A woman, mother of a baby, was invited to breastfeed her son in the sink when, being in the IVAM (Valencian Institute of Modern Art), he asked for her breast and she prepared to breastfeed him, as she always does.
Of course, seeing a baby pump milk with his mouth, directly from a female breast, must be so terrible that the most logical thing is that it is done in an individual place, hidden from the eyes of others and, if possible, surrounded by toilets and toilets. So that this is not a problem for women or their babies, and as in hospitals the rooms are usually shared and in them there is another mother with her baby, her relatives and sometimes even pediatricians and nurses, The most logical thing is for newborns to take their first shots in the hospital sink, with his mother, so that the opposite is normalized, breastfeeding in the toilet.
Breastfeeding in the toilet?
I hope you still have some sense of humor and realize that I am making use of sarcasm. I could have saved it, but it's been so many years already seeing how history repeats itself again and again, in different parts of the country, and even the world, that one ends up pulling a sense of humor to highlight the absurdity of situation.
You go with your baby to the Museum of Modern Art, a place where it would seem perfectly logical to see some sculpture of a woman breastfeeding, although it is made with irons, cardboard or other materials more modern than the one used in contemporary art, your baby considers that it has hunger, or perhaps you are getting bored (the reason is a bit indifferent) and you decide to do as always when you go out: you put your backpack with the child inside and While I breastfeed for a little while, you keep walking. You've done it like this hundreds of times everywhere, you don't expect anyone to ever tell you anything because you see it as normal, however the room manager appears, who warns security for, together, invite you to breastfeed in the sink.
No one in their right mind would go to a public toilet to eat, but babies, it seems, should do so. Obviously, you complain about it and ask to see the rule that says you can't breastfeed your baby there. The head of the room and the security girl are absent to go to ask for that rule, but they do not appear anymore.
After the episode and seeing that nobody comes to give explanations you go to ask for them. The answer is that you can't breastfeed a baby hereWell, it's written in the rules. Then you go personally to reception to request the rules of the enclosure, where they tell you that they don't know where they are. Before the embarrassment of the matter, before leaving, you ask for the book of claims and leave written the complaint of the facts to express your discontent and the denigrating of the event.
Where does a newborn have to take the shots
Returning to the title, in case it has not yet been clear that I was being sarcastic (I am sorry to insist, but I see that on the Babies Facebook page and more they will criticize me because there will be those who believe that I am serious), a newborn baby has to take the shots where the mother is calmer, which is usually in your hospital room. If it is not yet there, then wherever it is, because the first shot is usually done in the first hour and should not be postponed by looking for one or another place.
The mother and her baby are left in a quiet and little traveled place but not so that others do not see a baby suck a breast, but so that they both do quietly the most natural thing in the world. How can something that the baby does in the first minutes after birth be natural, without anyone teaching it to him?
Let's see if we all get a little involved, it seems that so much evolution we have gone from thread and something as normal as feeding your child to the chest is seen as something that should be hidden. We get involved, we start seeing again the act of breastfeeding as what it is, a baby or a child receiving food and love from his mother and we normalize it so that no mother or baby have to be invited to eat in a public toilet, never more.
