News of this style had not appeared for a long time and that was good news, but apparently there is still some rejection of breastfeeding in public (and my wife can attest to it, that yesterday at the pediatrician's office a man looked at him badly every time I gave Guim the tit), and this Thursday they threw a woman out of a Mercadona for breastfeeding her daughter.
It happened in Villafranca de los Barros, in Badajoz, where a young mother was making her purchase and, when breastfeeding her little girl, she was invited to leave the supermarket to continue feeding her daughter.
What happened surely you can imagine all because it is the story of always. The woman was shopping quietly, her daughter began to complain until she cried and the mother, trying to calm her down to comfort the intense crying (which is usually annoying for the mother and annoying for the people around her), took the girl and He offered his chest.
At that time, a supermarket worker considered that it bothered to see the girl sucking more than hearing her crying and told him that if he wanted to breastfeed he would have to do it outside.
The mother evidently became very angry with what happened and sought the support of various local citizens and the Skin-to-Skin breastfeeding group, who agreed that they saw nothing wrong with breastfeeding a baby in a public place . This led them to think about making a tetada claiming, that is, bringing together a group of nursing mothers and going to the aforementioned Mercadona to breastfeed all together.
From the company, officials have stated that "They regret the situation that has occurred and apologize to the affected mother". They have also explained that it is not a company policy, but that it was about an isolated and impulsive decision of the worker, “That he did not expel the young mother but only communicated that he could not do what he was doing”. They have also contacted the woman to apologize, commenting that the ideal would have been that they had offered “A more comfortable place to breastfeed your daughter in the same facilities of the center”.
It is clear that it is not company policy, because there are many women breastfeeding in the Mercadona, basically because there are many women breastfeeding everywhere. My wife, without going any further, has repeatedly breastfed my children while we buy because the children that walking every two times three do not motivate them too much and end up crying or asking for a little calm. Fortunately nobody has ever told us anything, although everything must be said, there are looks that kill.
