Recently, the internet has been flooded with stories of moms being shamed for breastfeeding in public?it’s truly exhausting that we’re still talking about this, right" But what if we told you that nursing your baby in public spaces used to be the norm"
Yep, as one mom on Facebook points out, telling moms who are nursing in public to cover up is beyond archaic?even the Puritans didn’t make a big deal about it!
In her post, Rene Johnson shares around 30 vintage photos of women breastfeeding their children in public spaces. Though we can’t vouch for the context of the photos (she provide very few details regarding where they were taken, in what year and what exactly is happening each photo), we do know that these mamas are feeling no shame for feeding their babies while they were out and about. Take a look:
When people say that openly nursing in public without a cover is a new thing. Uh no, no it is not, I promise. It wasn'…
Posted by Rene Johnson on Sunday, July 29, 2018

Pretty incredible, right" Since uploading, her post has almost 50,000 reactions and has been shared over 105,000 times.

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