'I Have The Right To Feed My Baby', Says Woman Kicked Out Of Public Pool For Breastfeeding

Just when you think people are being nice to each other - in general - something or the other drags us back to square one. People can be unreasonable to an annoying extent and more so when it comes to something as natural as breastfeeding.

A mother was told by a police officer to leave a public pool in Texas after she attempted to breastfeed her 10-month-old son. The mother named Misty Daugereaux, visited Nessler Park Family Aquatic Center in Texas City with her nephew and two sons, on Sunday.

While spending time by the pool, her baby got hungry, and she tried to breastfeed him discreetly, according to KTRK.

That¡¯s when a lifeguard approached the mother and told her that she could not nurse at the pool, due to it being against their policy.

"She said you need to cover up or leave," Daugereaux told the KTRK.

"She gave me the ultimatum. And I said, 'Well, you show me in your policy where I need to cover up and I'll leave.' And, she was telling me that it was not right, that I needed to cover up. It was their policy. And I said, 'Well, you can go call whoever you need to call, but I'm not leaving for breastfeeding my son.'"

In the video, the officer is later heard on his bodycam telling the manager, "You can't just have your titties out everywhere, I mean I get that you gotta feed your kid, that's all fine and dandy, but go sit under a blanket or something."

¡°I¡¯m so hurt, embarrassed and ashamed that this is what Texas City stands for,¡± Daugereaux wrote on Facebook.

This Texas City, Texas mom is livid, after she was kicked out of an aquatic center for breastfeeding her 10 month-old son. ? The City has since apologized, but Misty Daugereaux says it still made her feel defeated. My full story: https://t.co/mLMjx8C2lb pic.twitter.com/54Ojjqxffl

¡ª Erica Simon (@EricaOnABC13) 11 June 2019

After learning of her story, several moms in the area organized a nurse-in at the pool to protest the staff¡¯s actions. Daugereaux said she's heard from moms as far away as England.

Cute kid alert: 10 month-old Maxx¡¯s need to feed ended with his mom having to leave a public pool in Texas City. She says the cops were even called on her for breastfeeding. Now, the city is apologizing + other moms are offering support. More: @KHOU at 4:00 #khou11 #htownrush pic.twitter.com/5ifqpyDiMP

¡ª Jason Miles (@JMilesKHOU) 10 June 2019

"I've tried to be as discreet as possible whenever it comes to breastfeeding already. I understand views and people's opinions," Daugereaux told KHOU.

"But not to the point where you get kicked out of a public space because you decide to feed your child."

Back in 2018, in a similar incident a woman named Melanie Dudley, from Austin, Texas was shamed for breastfeeding. But the way she dealt with it turned her into a star.

A woman was told to 'cover up' while breastfeeding; she did this instead https://t.co/saBWSSVo2d pic.twitter.com/Bq3ooxoJZ4

¡ª KOLD News 13 (@KOLDNews) 9 August 2018

When some guy asked her to cover, Dudley literally took a towel and covered her face. The sarcasm was on point!

n, Dudley asked her husband to hand her a cover and immediately covered her face, instead of tossing the towel on her bare breasts. Her act was caught by fellow diners who were there at the restaurant

Women around the world are ridiculed for breastfeeding in public and to break this narrow-minded notion, last year a Malayalam magazine posted a cover photo of a woman breastfeeding.

"We do not see, despite our best efforts, obscenity in the picture, nor do we find anything objectionable in the caption, for men. We looked at the picture with the same eyes we look at the paintings of artists like Raja Ravi Varma. As the beauty lies in the beholder¡¯s eye, so does obscenity, perhaps," the Bench comprising then Chief Justice Antony Dominic and Justice Dama Seshadri Naidu observed.

The cover post might have courted controversy and the the Kerala High Court finally deemed that it cannot be deemed as obscene.