After one
mom shared cute photos of her young daughter pretending to breastfeed
her baby doll, she was shocked and horrified to find that not everyone
thought it was so cute — and one even hurled abuse at her for allowing
the behavior in the first place.
The unknown American mom shared her anger and disappointment in a post on the Facebook group Breastfeeding Mama Talk, which has since gone viral.
She
also included a screengrab of a post from another unknown woman, who
called the two-year-old's play-breastfeeding 'the nastiest s*** of my
life' and said the mom should be 'punched in the damn face' for not
discouraging it.
How cute! An unknown mom shared images of her two-year-old daughter Charlotte pretending to breastfeed her doll
Just like mom! She said she was shopping when she heard her toddler talk about her 'baby' crying and wanting to eat
In
the original photos, a pigtailed two-year-old blonde girl named
Charlotte sits in the front of a shopping cart in a clothing store.
She
seems sweet and innocent as can be, looking down at the doll in her
hand as she lifts up her pink ruffled T-shirt and positions its head
somewhere in the vicinity of the center of her chest.
In the second photo, Charlotte is looking up as her mom takes the picture, smiling shyly as the doll 'breastfeeds'.
The
mom clearly thought the moment was cute and funny, and shared the
images online with the caption: 'You know you're a breastfeeding mother
when you look over in the middle of the store to your toddler saying,
"Baby cry, baby just wants eat..."
Unfortunately,
not everyone saw the image as simply showing a little girl pretending
to be a mommy and imitating her own mother's behavior.
One woman in particular, who seems to be from the south, took to Facebook to share a nasty rant about the pictures.
Play time: The little girl is clearly mimicking her own mother, doing something she sees as natural and innocent
Say what? Another Facebook user,
though, was disgusted by the photo and wrote some nasty things about the
little girl and her mother
'I
just saw some of the nastiest s*** of my life!!" she wrote. 'If you're
okay with your daughter lifting up her shirt and putting her baby dolls
mouth on her little "dots" pretending to breastfeed then I personally
think you need [to be] punched in the damn face!!!
'It's just simply not okay!!! Arguments welcome. I'm willing to shut y'all down today. [sic]'
The
original mother was, unsurprisingly, flabbergasted by the vitriol in
the stranger's post, and upset about the message she was sending.
'The
breastfeeding shaming starts before they even start really
breastfeeding!' the mom wrote in the Breastfeeding Mama Facebook group.
'I
am absolutely blown away,' she went on. 'Maybe it is the wording that
gets to me, the parts saying "it's the nastiest s*** of their life" and
"I need punched in the damn face" but I am shocked. What I first thought
to myself was, did she breastfeed?!'
The
mom added that she is still breastfeeding Charlotte, but she
formula-fed her five-year-old son Bentley — and she doesn't understand
how someone could see a toddler pretending to breastfeed a baby as a
toddler pretending to bottle-feed one.