Neha Dhupia Instagram – @pearls.world … thank you for this beautiful post and thank you for being such an important voice for #freedomtofeed ❤️🤱#Repost @pearls.world with @get_repost ・・・ Neha, thank you for bringing this issue to the fore. This post is for you … only you could’ve made me put my thoughts down about this. 😊 My baby is now a year and a half old and I’m in absolutely no hurry to get her off the breast. This is her right, her natural instinct and is the most comforting thing in the world for her. I’ve been lucky that I haven’t faced many problems when I have chosen to breastfeed in public (apart from forgetting to put the damn cape into the diaper bag!), but I realise that most women have a different story to tell. Breastfeeding is the most natural, instinctive process and should be recognised for what it is – sustenance and comfort for our babies. It would be wonderful to see more public spaces making it convenient for women to feed as and when they need to, whether with a bottle or the breast. The idea is to just have a hygienic, calm space, to settle in for the feed. Imagine having to hide the most beautiful, natural and pure thing from the world! Something almost every human being has depended on. As if there was some shame attached to it! It is plainly … bizarre. It’s time to remove the feelings of embarrassment that engulf breastfeeding in public, the fumbling and fidgeting to hide every inch of skin while we feed. I realise that a lot of people avert their eyes to give more privacy to the mother, but most do so because they can’t deal with their own discomfort and feelings of unease. Can’t gloss over the fact that people are conditioned to look at breasts with only one purpose in mind. Maybe it’s time to change our perceptions and in that moment, see just a mama feeding her baby milk. Plain and simple. Maybe you will also then see that most breastfeeding women do wear capes … but somehow, they’ve got them on the wrong way around 😉 #mumsaresuperheroes #normalisebreastfeeding #worldbreastfeedingweek #freedomtofeed @nehadhupia