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Shop owner throws dirty towel at mom for nursing inside store

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Shop owner throws dirty towel at mom for nursing inside storeShop owner throws dirty towel at mom for nursing inside store

“A man who worked at the pharmacy threw a heavy towel over my daughter and me. I was shocked because I was fully covered and you couldn’t see anything other than my daughter's head.”

When your newborn is hungry, it doesn’t matter where you are and what you’re doing. You feed him.

According to The Daily Mail, that was what nineteen-year-old mother Catherine Porter did when her daughter Mya began to fuss. It just so happened that Mya got hungry while they were at the Pharmacist’s.

So Catherine sat down and nursed her daughter, making sure that while she did it she was properly and only Mya’s head was showing.

But that didn’t seem to be enough.

“A man who worked at the pharmacy threw a heavy towel over my daughter and me. I was shocked because I was fully covered and you couldn’t see anything other than my daughter’s head.”

Catherine added that the towel was dirty and heavy, and it left her in utter disbelief for being treated in such a way. It made her feel as if breast feeding was the wrong thing to do.

Shop Owner Throws Dirty Towel at Mom for Nursing Inside Store

Photo credit: The Daily Mail

The pharmacist, 56-year-old Dilip Jani, on the other hand, denied the allegations.

“It was held in front of her to cover her. Nothing was thrown at them. We’re a pharmacy, we don’t throw things over our customers,” he said.

He also argued that the store have had people of all ages come in, and they were unaware that they were offending customers.

“People can do that in public if they wish,” he added. “But because we had customers we felt it was appropriate.”

Coming to Dilip’s defense, his brother Ashok, the director of Canning Chemists, said:

“We have CCTV in the shop and Dilip and the staff have viewed it and are satisfied that they did nothing wrong. They were polite as usual.”

 

READ: 7 Breastfeeding Tips for the Working Filipino Mom

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