It seems incredible that today a mother has to live such a humiliating scene, but unfortunately it continues to happen in some public places. The double standards What is in society about women's breasts is evident in regrettable situations, such as what happened last Sunday in a public pool of the 'Nessler Park Family Aquatic Center', in Texas (United States).
Misty Daugereaux is a mother who enjoyed a pool day with her two children and a nephew, when her 10-month-old baby was restless and she decided to breastfeed. Seeing her, the lifeguard and the pool attendant they approached him to ask him to cover himself to breastfeed his baby, or else you should leave the pool.
By refusing, as the mother relates in a post she shared on Facebook, the police showed up and asked him to leave. He then demanded to see the regulation stipulating that breastfeeding is prohibited, although he was not taught.
“I fed my first child up to 3 years and for me it is important to be able to breastfeed my second baby too,” said the mother.
The body camera of one of the policemen who appeared in the pool recorded the scene, and the video was posted on the Texas police Facebook page (distorted to protect the privacy of the people recorded):
You can see how the pool attendant tells the police that the mother had both breasts outside, which the mother denies.
“It broke my heart to watch that video, It's not true that I undressed to feed my baby and it seems to me in very bad taste that the officer said that he would have to cover me with a sheet, ”I continue.
She was required to pick up her belongings and escorted her to the exit with "tears falling down my face," the mother tells Today.com. "I was alone, I didn't want to cause a scene and scare my children."
In Babies and more History repeats itself: a mother is prohibited from breastfeeding by the pool due to the risk of water contaminationMisty does not plan to leave the subject settled. She felt attacked, discriminated against, humiliated and considers that she did not have the necessary support in a state where breastfeeding in public is protected by law.
He stated that he will proceed legally after watching the video of the police body camera. For its part, the city issued a statement in which it apologized to the woman and adds that she will review "the city's policies and procedures."
The support of other mothers
The next day, a group of mothers showed up with their babies in the water park to show their support for the expelled mother.
Social networks were also flooded with messages of support from other mothers around the world who sympathize with Misty. You have to make visible stories like this one so that it doesn't happen again. The UN recognizes breastfeeding as a human right for the mother and the baby. The mother is the only one who has the right to decide where and when to feed her child.
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