Normalise Breastfeeding stages feed in to raise awareness
As the country celebrates Women’s Day, mothers from
organisation - Normalise Breastfeeding staged a feed in at the Jacaranda FM
studios in Midrand.
Ame Schwab from the organisation says breastfeeding mothers often get labelled when they feed their children in public.
She believes Women’s Day was the perfect time to raise issues affecting all women.
“We are here to raise awareness to the discrimination against mothers who breastfeed with or without a cover in public. We often get told we are looking for attention or that we are doing an indecent sexual act,” she says
Schwab says she was shocked at the public’s response to a post on the Jacaranda FM Facebook page about a mother who breastfed her baby shortly after completing a triathlon.
“The public’s reaction towards the mother was unacceptable. Breastfeeding mothers were compared to sexual offenders. Breastfeeding was compared to sexual harassment. We have the right to feed our children,” she says.