Did She Take Her Breastfeeding In Public Too Far? Nursing Mom, Aleigha Jean Shares Her Story

A crying baby who needs ‘booby’ attention knows nothing about an in-conducive place or inconvenient timing; he/she must be fed and it must be immediately it is asked for. Aren’t babies ‘bosses’?! Nursing mom, Aleigha Jean was shopping in an Albany-area Walmart last week when her 7-week-old baby woke from a long nap. To answer her baby’s call for food, Jean pulled up her shirt and started feeding her daughter.

While at it, another mom had walked up to her and said, “You know they make blankets for that… because that’s exactly what my 5 and 7 year old sons need to be seeing.”

Jean replied, “Go f**k yourself,” and headed home to pen a viral Facebook post about why breastfeeding moms should be able to nurse openly and without covers, no matter where they are when the need arise.

Jean had a simple, straightforward, and colourful message for the woman, but a broader and more thoughtful message for social media, in which she outlined exactly why nursing moms need support and compassion in public.

First, she explained that she was completely covered: her breasts with a tank top, and her stomach with a camisole. Next, she said that her daughter was hungry, and it’s her job as a mom to keep her baby fed.

Next, she explained that the woman’s sons should be taught to respect the needs of new moms and their nursing babies (if they had been present). Finally, she said that she didn’t have a clean blanket, and that it’s hard for babies to nurse with blankets in their faces, anyway, especially not during summer.

She further shared two photos of her breastfeeding in the superstore, showing just how discreet and covered she was while her baby got a much-needed meal.

She concluded: “Completely in shock as to how a WOMAN let alone a MOTHER could put a woman down another for that…I shouldn’t ever have to feel ashamed for feeding my child but you ma’am should definitely be ashamed.”

Here’s her viral Facebook post.

”To the asshole lady, in lack of better words, at Cobleskill Walmart who felt the need to mom shame me in front of a crowd of people today…

“You know they make blankets for that…because that’s exactly what my 5 and 7 year old sons need to be seeing”

1. I was completely covered (as shown below).
2. When my daughter wakes up from a three hour nap and expects to be fed I’m going to because that’s my job as a mother no matter what the circumstances or where I am.
3. Maybe you should teach your sons how to be respectable in that situation (which they weren’t present anyway).
4. The only blanket I had, had gotten dirty and either way who would want to eat with a blanket on their face especially with how muggy today has been.

Completely in shock as to how a WOMAN let alone a MOTHER could put a woman down another for that…I shouldn’t ever have to feel ashamed for feeding my child but you ma’am should definitely be ashamed.

With all due respect and as I said in Walmart ????????
#GoF**kYourself.”

Photo credit: Facebook/ Aleigha Jean