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The act of breastfeeding is a lovely and natural way for a mother to develop intimacy and a bond with her child.\n Moms shouldn’t feel guilty about feeding their kids whenever and wherever they are hungry, but regrettably, some people criticize them because they think it’s improper or unacceptable to feed newborns in public if they don’t use a cover.\n Melanie Dudley, a mother of a 3-month-old child, was at a restaurant with her family and a few friends back in 2018 when the child began to cry for food. Melanie, a Texas native, initiated breastfeeding her son without reluctance. And even if that was OK to everyone, it appeared that a stranger seated at the next table felt uneasy about this mother’s lack of clothing while nursing.\n He approached Melanie and requested that she cover up, but she responded in a way the stranger didn\u2019t expect.\n Melanie shared with Yahoo, \u201cI was on vacation in Cabo San Lucas with my entire family, and a man asked me to cover myself. I\u2019m usually discreet but we were seated in the back of the restaurant.\u201d\n Speaking to TODAY, the Texan explained, \u201cI did have the cover on, but it was so hot. It was like, 95 degrees, and my little baby was sweating.\u201d\n She added, \u201cI said, \u2018You know what? I\u2019m on vacation, I\u2019m taking this off.\u2019\u201d\n Melanie, feeling at a loss for words, decided to place the cover over her head, which caused the entire restaurant to erupt in laughter.\n \u201cI just put it over my head. I don\u2019t know why. It wasn\u2019t like a salacious fight or anything. That was just my response. I had no words, so I thought, I\u2019ll just cover my head instead,\u201d she explained.\n Carol Lockwood, a bystander who saw the whole incident, snapped a photo of Melanie and posted it online with the caption, \u201cI\u2019ve never met her, but I think she\u2019s AWESOME!!! (Please share! With permission, I\u2019ve made this post public \u2014 I\u2019m SO over people shaming women for nursing!!!\u201d The photo quickly gained traction, being shared over 225,000 times.\n A great number of people stood my Melanie\u2019s side and supported what she did.\n We truly believe that breastfeeding is the most normal thing and no mom should feel ashamed for giving food to her baby in public.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The act of breastfeeding is a lovely and natural way for a mother to develop intimacy and a bond with her child. Moms shouldn’t feel guilty about feeding their kids whenever and wherever they are hungry, but regrettably, some people criticize them because they think it’s improper or unacceptable to feed newborns in public if …\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":97205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97207,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90711\/revisions\/97207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}