Bollywood actress, former Queen activist and the beauty environment, he Mirza recently welcomed a new life in his world – a baby boy, Avaan Azaad Rekhi, who was born prematurely.
While the actress has vocalized enough about the need to change the norm and replenish all who wore because she was pregnant before her marriage, recently, the mother first talked about the undue stigma and embarrassing surrounding breastfeeding in India.
He, whose son, the avyaan was born on May 14 has been through an emergency C-Section, in recent months it was taken to social media to talk about how his motherly had changed it.
While he argued that being a mother had changed the way he saw something, he did not find enough reception for something trivial as breastfeeding in this country.
Speaking to media agents in connection with the week of breastfeeding the world, Mirza, who has installed Vaibhav Rekhi’s partner a few months ago said that there was a little safety for mothers to breastfeed safely in public, who also met with a lot of shame and judgment.
In fact, the survey has exhibited that only 6% of women in India feel comfortable, or accept public breastfeeding, prove that there is still a big taboo around the same:
“I became more aware of the lack of safe space for new women, especially if they were socially marginalized and economically.
Why did we never [highlighted] how difficult it was for mothers who were not served to feed their baby at the location of construction, agriculture and edge shops Road without privacy? ”
The 39-year-old also highlights that in a country like us, where there are still high childish mortal mortality and malnutrition, need to be included in the systematic shift and extensive normalization for breastfeeding:
“In Belgium, breastfeeding in public is protected by law, but in India, we need to bring systematic changes in social attitudes.
Feeding children must be considered a natural action, but it triggers so much shame and assessment when done in public.”
He also turned on the judgment and trivialization around breastfeeding, which is the most natural action must stop and do not need to associate feeding children publicly with all kinds of shame or commenting.
Besides him, several other actresses have talked about the need to normalize awareness around breastfeeding in this country.
From actress Neha Dhupia, who now expects her second child, Amrita Rao for television actresses and new women, Ekta Kaul, young Bollywood young brigade has used a social media platform to talk about the same thing.
A number of celebrities and influencers, including fashion experts, Diipa Khosla, which made statements by modeling designer clothes with breast pumps do their bits to normalize breastfeeding.
What can be done to normalize breastfeeding in India?
Breastfeeding is the most important form of food for a child in the first year of his biological year and protects them from a lot of risk of disease too.
For mothers too, it helps fuel bonds.
Even though it is the most natural action, to honor Sunday breastfeeding, here are some ways we can normalize and cut stigma around the same, marking safer space for new moms:
-Prove women with rest and nursing room right at work
-Makan awareness about the importance of breastfeeding for the first 6 months
-Then the right prenatal counseling to expect mothers
-Office of adequate family and sensitization
“Public breastfeeding is considered embarrassing”
