Having a newborn baby is an emotional time for new parents — it requires feedings and diaper changes every few hours, and it can be absolutely exhausting.
Of course, it's also an incredibly joyful time. Welcoming a new child to the family is thrilling, and the first few weeks and months are the perfect time for parents to bond with their little one.
Many moms find that breastfeeding can add an element of connection to their time with their newborn.
Unfortunately, almost all moms who nurse have been shamed for their method of feeding their baby. In an effort to end the stigma, many moms have begun fighting back.
Recently, a mom-of-two received an invitation to her husband's best friend's wedding. They were excited to go to the ceremony, but then they saw a pink note from the bridezilla telling all breastfeeding moms that they'd have to nurse in the bathroom.
[H/T: ScaryMommy]
The note said:
To all our mommies who are breastfeeding, we are thinking of you; we are sensitive to the fact that you may need to breastfeed during our event, therefore we have designated an appropriate place for you to feed your baby so that you do not have to do so in public in front of our Family and Friends.
For your convenience we are accommodating you with a comfortable and private area with chairs and baby blankets in the ladies room.
We request that you use this area when you are breastfeeding. Thank you.
The mom, who was offended and stunned by the note, then wrote:
This was in the invitation to my husband’s best friend’s wedding.
My husband is the best man so it will just be me in the crowd.
We have had several arguments over “my” breastfeeding ways and they have multiple times voiced that I need to go elsewhere to do that in “private!”
I was going to just be nice and try and let my best friend watch my two kids (ages 2 and 3 months) and she would wet nurse my youngest (she's still nursing her 2 year old as well) because we haven't found a bottle my youngest will take yet and wet nursing doesn't bother me.
Hubby and I were just gonna make it a date night… But apparently that wasn’t okay either.
So I said I would just bring my littlest baby to the wedding then, but no way in hell I will leave and nurse her in the bathroom (no matter how "nice" they make it!)
I don’t eat in the bathroom I’m not feeding my child in there!
… I want to be "nice" as possible but what should I do!? Go ahead and leave her with my friend (who by the way has nursed her multiple times) or take her!? Help!
Later, the Facebook page Breastfeeding Mama Talk explained that she ended up not taking either of her kids to the wedding.
People who saw the bridezilla's note were hugely supportive of the nursing mom.
It's also unclear why the bride thinks it's her place to tell the mother she can't have a friend wet nurse a baby during the wedding.
Surely, her babysitting plans are her business, especially after the mom has thoughtfully come up with a solution to the "problem."
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