EVEN if uncomfortable, it is hard to imagine a customer hurling abuse at a mother for discreetly breastfeeding her baby (Abuse 'hurled' at breastfeeding woman, Hereford Times, February 12).
Breasts are visible everywhere and used to sell anything from cars to newspapers. However, when a mother uses one for the purpose for which it was designed her behaviour was apparently called incestuous and disgusting.
The use of such strange and inappropriate language can only be a sign of a warped mentality. You don’t have to look – and mothers normally breastfeed discreetly even though there is nothing shameful about it.
I contrast what happened to the poor mother in your report with the notice in Leominster Library, “You are welcome to breastfeed here.”
JOSEPH COCKER Castlefields, Leominster
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