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Dad tells daughter restaurant is too 'nice' for her to breastfeed at the table

(Instagram/kellymarie_yoga)
(Instagram/kellymarie_yoga)

Kelly Stanley was enjoying a nice dinner out with her family when she suddenly felt a napkin being tossed on top of her. Turns out it was from her dad who did not approve of her feeding her 9-month-old daughter at the dinner table.

“Maya (9 months) was getting irritable, and I knew what she needed. She needed to nurse, so of course I pull my shirt down to feed and comfort her,” she says in an Instagram post describing the incident.

“Someone at the dinner table then grabs one of those cloth napkins and tries to toss it over me. I asked him what he was doing, and he said he was trying to cover me. We were at Bonefish, and apparently that is too ‘nice’ of a restaurant to nurse a baby uncovered.”

That “someone” was her dad.

The 23-year-old mom goes on to say how sick she is sick of people “sexualizing” breastfeeding.

“No, I’d rather not pull my shirt down in a public place or a nice restaurant. I’d rather people NOT see my stretch marked breast or scratched nipples. But you know what? We can’t sit here and tout that breast is best and then have a fit about how inappropriate it is to feed a baby in public.”

Rather than shame her for doing something that is completely natural, she wishes men would be more considerate.

“We need to stop making excuses for men and start expecting them to act like mature human beings who are capable of being in control of themselves.”

To add insult to injury, days after Stanley posted about the incident at the restaurant with her father, she had a breastfeeding post reported and removed from Instagram.

Reposting the image with a butterfly covering up where her nipple would be she says, “I find it really sad that our society finds the need to censor a woman feeding her child.”