I think I have rarely felt as much complicity as when I agree with other mothers in a nursing room. Sometimes people's eyes when I do it in public, some curious, others of tenderness and others of which I cannot decipher its meaning, make me feel as if I am doing something very rare.
That's why when I see demonstrations such as the beginning of the TV show 'This is life', in which we saw Cristina Lasvignes with a group of mothers breastfeeding their babies, I can't help feeling a certain joy and wondering, Is breastfeeding on television finally ceasing to be invisible?.
I have been trying to remember the number of programs in which I have seen women breastfeeding and the truth is that except in the formula milk ads (ironic, right?), I can't think of it anymore. TV is supposed to be a reflection of daily life and the most massive means of communication that exist, and If there is still a taboo, when will society begin to see it with the normality it has?
The truth is that in other media such as the Internet, there are many more manifestations, as if a campaign was being forged to normalize it: Recently we saw a group of female soldiers in the United States who posed breastfeeding their children, we have seen celebrities publishing photos doing it on their social networks and even the very Disney princesses. That is, it is a movement that is happening even outside our borders.
At this time when my daughter is still exclusively breastfeeding and therefore many times I have to breastfeed in public, I am quite aware of the issue. I dream of the day when we stop having news of security guards that 'invite' customers to leave the stores or customers of restaurants or hotels that are bothered 'by the moment of bad taste' that means seeing a Mother breastfeeding her son.
I think that the image of Cristina Lasvignes with that group of women is a great grain of sand to achieve it, hopefully many more will come so that people see it as what it is: something totally natural.
