Unfortunately, almost all breastfeeding mother will find themselves being shamed or harassed at one point or another by strangers who feel it’s inappropriate, yet one young mom never expected to be shamed for breastfeeding by a nurse in the hospital.
18-year-old Darcie Pennington was visiting the Royal Liverpool Hospital with her three-month-old son and mother to see her grandmother who was sick with cancer. When she began breastfeeding her son in her grandmother’s semi-private room, a nurse approached her and forced her into a private room as it was making a man uncomfortable.
“I was shocked by what she had said and told her politely that I am legally allowed to feed my child wherever I like. And I considered I was feeding in a fairly private area anyway, with my back to the room,” Pennington wrote in a post to Facebook. “Another nurse then came up and said they were protecting my dignity.”
“I’ve fed everywhere, shopping centres, shops, cafes – and I’ve never had a problem like this before. I can’t believe this attitude came in a hospital, and from nurses.”
‘I asked if dignity would need to be protected if I was feeding with a bottle, and I was told that no, because feeding with a bottle was not sexual. When I went to sit back down to resume the feed the nurse stormed over and rudely tugged the curtain around us. I was incredibly hurt, upset and embarrassed.”
Soon after, Pennington and her mother felt so uncomfortable they had to leave the hospital, who later apologized for the misunderstanding. “If I wasn’t so passionate and they had confronted someone who was new to breastfeeding they could have made them feel like they weren’t doing the right thing and to me that is appalling behaviour,” Pennington said.
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