What happened was this: When the plane was about to take off, the flight attendants asked Chelsea to stop breastfeeding. Then Chelsea had to stop, and then the baby cried. It took about an hour before she settled down, and she didn't breastfeed the baby again until the plane left the cabin smoothly.
On the return trip, Chelsea's husband sent a message to the airline customer service in advance, asking if he could breastfeed when the flight took off and landed. The airline explained that it was not recommended to do so, which would make others feel uncomfortable. Later, after Chelsea's experience was exposed, the airline apologized and said that it would always support breastfeeding on the flight.
Seeing this, I am also very emotional. In many countries and regions, breastfeeding in public places is completely reasonable and legal, but in fact, voices of opposition often occur around us.
Just some time ago, I saw a news that a young mother named Melanie was nursing her four-month-old baby when she was eating in a restaurant. As a result, she was reminded by a strange man to "cover up".
In order to fight back and satirize, mother directly covered her head with a nursing towel. Later, her friend uploaded the photos to Facebook, and then this incident caused netizens to madly forward more than 300,000 times on Facebook. Many people appreciate Melanie's practice and think that "breastfeeding is a natural thing and there is nothing to avoid". However, some people object.
To tell the truth, I especially want to give this mother a thumbs-up when I see this news. Although the slogan has been chanting freedom, it is really difficult for young mothers to breastfeed their children in public. Those weird eyes alone are enough to break them down. And those who can withstand the pressure to feed their children are called "heroic mothers".
I have also asked many young mothers around me, and their answer is still: "No one will breastfeed in public unless absolutely necessary. When people come and go, they will not be able to overcome this hurdle in their hearts. "
There are also mothers who want to go to the bathroom to feed, but the bathroom is a squat pit. If you don't feed, you can't. The child cried with hunger. Finally, there is no way. So he took out a dress and put it on his head, and then wrapped the child to ensure that he could not see the appearance of breastfeeding from all angles before feeding the child. Yeah, who wants to do that? It's all to comfort the baby. This is the last resort.
Therefore, I want to say that there is nothing wrong with young mothers breastfeeding in public.
Because, for many lactating women, psychology itself denies breastfeeding in public. Although breastfeeding is a particularly beautiful thing, this beauty is limited to yourself and your baby. No one wants to breastfeed or let others point fingers in public. Moreover, the baby is crying, and the mother's instinct is to feed the baby at the first time, but she can't find the mother-baby room and didn't bring a nursing towel. Finally, she ate in public, which became the last resort.
In China, many young celebrity mothers have said such things. I remember reading Ma Yili's appeal. Everyone hopes to set up as many maternity rooms as possible in shopping malls, hospitals, playgrounds and other areas where mothers and babies are relatively concentrated, so that breastfeeding can have a comfortable place.
Finally, I hope this kind of public facilities can be popularized and improved as soon as possible, and try to give mothers and babies a comfortable breastfeeding environment, which can effectively avoid the embarrassment of young mothers breastfeeding and reduce unnecessary disputes.