It is very possible that this headline sounds to you, and it is not the first time it happens and I imagine it will not be the last. Every year, every summer, in a swimming pool somewhere in the world some nursing mother suffers the humiliation of being expelled, or "invited" to leave, for feeding her child.
It has happened again, this time in Cornwall, England, where a woman and her 10-month-old baby were expelled from the pool because of the risk of "water contamination".
The woman is Rebecca Hough, a 23-year-old mother who must have a kind of highly contaminating radioactive liquid, a greenish color, whose mixture with the substances in the water must produce a potentially deadly gas. I say that your milk will be like that, because if not, I don't explain it to you.
Apparently he was in the pool, breastfeeding his son, when the director of the enclosure approached him to ask him to leave, that he could not breastfeed his son because of the risk of contamination. I imagine that seconds later (I return to sarcasm) I would throw all the children under 3 years old, for the same reason (you know that many mean) and women and men with too much heat and excessive sweating.
When the media asked Rebecca about the event, she explained that she had felt embarrassed because "I was not doing anything wrong". And quite rightly: in England it was approved in 2010 a Equality law prohibiting discrimination against women for breastfeeding in public.
A few days after the unlikely episode, he received a letter from those responsible for the pool, apologizing, but repeating that the intention was, at all times, to ensure the health and safety of the center. If I already say: stay with the mother's name, it is likely that you will see her in the next X-Men movie with Wolverine, using her superpower to end the evil.
In short, to continue fighting for the normalization of breastfeeding in public. Something that will be achieved by doing precisely what this woman was doing: breastfeeding in public as if she were doing the most normal thing in the world, precisely because I was doing the most normal thing in the world.
