What happens when a woman feeds her baby to the breast in a luxurious London hotel? Well, those responsible for the hotel try to make everyone inside behave like silent and dehumanized mannequins, which I imagine is the type of people staying there, and they force you to cover your baby with a napkin. I clarify that, if I seem upset, yes, I am, because many people justify the action saying that "of course, it was a luxury hotel."
That having more money are nothing more than anyone and a hungry baby can never be below the whims and hobbies of wealthy people. If at least at the same level. And in the case of a baby, who can not consume anything that is offered there, at a higher level, I would say, and shouldn't hide.
To attest to the moment, the mother victim decided to take two photos. One before and one after. The smile? The one we put all when we have a goal in front, which does not have to equate to the feelings of the moment. In fact, Louise Burns, who is the protagonist of this story, explained in The Guardian that she felt humiliated.
She is 35 years old, her baby is 12 weeks old and with her sister and mother they decided to go to the hotel restaurant to have a drink. He posted the image on his Twitter account and explained the following:
I started feeding my daughter very discreetly when the waiter hurried with a huge napkin, knelt down and said that I had to cover myself by hotel policy ... My initial reaction was to burst into tears. This was my third baby. I had trouble breastfeeding the first two but it was going well. I did not expect to be reprimanded at a hotel in central London.
Apparently, both the waiter and the supervisor who later went to talk to her were very polite in their ways. Even so, they explained that they had no problem with breastfeeding, but that they asked for discretion. And that discretion, it seems, is about making breastfeeding invisible. Those explanations made him even more nervous, making him feel even worse, and as a complaint he decided to share the event online.
As she says herself, and as we have often said: "No one should make you feel that way as I was at that time, especially when mothers are under pressure to breastfeed their children". Come on, it is recommended that the baby be breastfed because it is best for him, but then there is a double standard that tells you not to do it in the sight of others, making you feel bad if you do. This should not happen anywhere, so once again, we leave this post as a sign that even the rich are not respectful of babies and in support of Louise Burns, who that day did nothing wrong, but she felt judged and humiliated.
