Breastfeeding is a natural and beautiful process that helps create intimacy and bonding between the mom and her bundle of joy.
Feeding babies whenever and wherever they are hungry is something mom’s shouldn’t feel bad about, but sadly, there are people out there who give them a hard time as they believe feeding babies in public is not appropriate or acceptable if they don’t use a cover.
Back in 2018, Melanie Dudley, a mom of a 3-month-old baby, was at a restaurant with her family and some friends when the little one started crying for food. Without hesitation, Melanie, who is from Texas, started breastfeeding her son. And although everyone was fine with that, it looked like a stranger who was sitting on the next table was uncomfortable with this mom not being covered while breastfeeding.
He approached Melanie and asked her to cover up. And well, she did just that, but in a manner that stranger expected.
”I was on vacation in Cabo San Lucas with my entire family, and a man asked me to cover myself. I’m usually discreet but we were seated in the back of the restaurant,” Melanie told Yahoo.
“I did have the cover on, but it was so hot. It was like, 95 degrees, and my little baby was sweating,” the Texan told TODAY.
“I said, ‘You know what? I’m on vacation, I’m taking this off.’”
Melanie took the cover and put it on her head instead, having the entire restaurant bursting out in laughter.
”I just put it over my head. I don’t know why. It wasn’t like a salacious fight or anything. That was just my response. I had no words, so I thought, I’ll just cover my head instead,” the woman explained.
A woman who witnessed the entire thing, Carol Lockwood, took a photo of Melanie and shared it online with the caption, “I’ve never met her, but I think she’s AWESOME!!! (Please share! With permission, I’ve made this post public — I’m SO over people shaming women for nursing!!!” In no time, the photo was shared 225,000 times and counting.
A great number of people stood my Melanie’s side and supported what she did.
We truly believe that breastfeeding is the most normal thing and no mom should feel ashamed for giving food to her baby in public.
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This kind 8-year-old paid off his friend’s school lunch debt after he was denied food
Cayden Taipalus, eight years old, is here to restore your confidence in humanity, so do not lose hope if you feel that it has been lost.
This young man decided to take matters into his own hands after noticing that one of his buddies was not receiving a warm breakfast at school.
Specifically, Cayden witnessed his friend receiving a sandwich rather than a hot dinner at Challenger Elementary in Howell, Michigan, one day because there weren’t enough money in his lunch account. His heart was broken, and he felt compelled to change things.
After getting home, Cayden immediately told his mother what he had seen and that it had made him feel a little depressed. His mother, Amber Melke-Peters, concurred that action was necessary to stop incidents like that from happening in the future, so together they devised the concept of creating a fundraising website named “Pay It Forward: No Kid Goes Hungry.”
Cayden asked for donations to cover his friends’ lunch debts from neighbors, relatives, and friends. His endeavor, nevertheless, went beyond financial gain because many were inspired by his narrative as it spread.
In an effort to generate money on his own, he even launched a recycling drive. He then addressed the school’s lunch staff and asked that the money be transferred to the accounts of students who were having financial issues.
More than $41,000 has been raised since Cayden launched his effort, allowing him to feed many underprivileged pupils.
Cayden’s ultimate goal is to ensure that no child misses a school day without a hot meal.
“I am so very proud of my son,” his mother declared in an interview with ABC News. His understanding of this notion at the age of eight is quite remarkable, in my opinion. His heart is made of gold.
What started as a stirring feeling in Cayden’s gut turned into an initiative that might guarantee that many kids have hot lunches.
Many people appreciated him and were motivated to support his initiative.
We think this is a fantastic initiative you choose to work on, and we contributed to it. I’m hoping that your idea has received a nomination for the Make a Difference initiative. Someone wrote, “Cayden, you have really made a difference. You have done an amazing job of helping a lot of kids.” You wouldn’t imagine that children would go hungry in a land of plenty, but in actuality, for a lot of youngsters, the food they consume at school can be their only meal of the day. It breaks my heart. As they say, it takes a village to raise a child, and by doing this, we can contribute to the upbringing of a few children while preserving their dignity.
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