I WAS listening to the radio the other day when I began to wonder what our beautiful South Africa is coming to.
There are many distasteful things happening in public, but now the sick minds have to add breastfeeding to that horrible list.
Really?
Since when has an innocent act (created by the Almighty) of feeding a baby become an embarrassment?
In our black communities it used to be men who, on hearing the baby’s constant cry, would shout with concern ‘Ayinaye umamo leyo ngane ayincelise?’ (doesn’t that baby have a mother who can feed him?).
The health fraternity is busy encouraging mothers to breastfeed.
On the other hand, custodians of morality (who themselves were likely breastfed as babies) say ‘Not in public’, claiming it makes them feel uncomfortable.
Uncomfortable? My foot!
They are so obsessed with their comfort zones that they care about nothing else.
We did not display our breastfeeding, but I cannot comprehend how lucky these babies were, born in days of past because nobody interfered with – or sexualised – their nourishment.
Thumbs up for free and healthy breast milk!
