The stigma around breastfeeding in public is so widespread that even the daughter of President of Kyrgyztan was not spared. Not only in India but in many parts of the world breastfeeding in public is still considered as a stigma. A woman’s body comes with plenty of inhibitions which have become very difficult to rule out. But the gesture of motherhood is also stigmatized in a way that it has lost its meaning.
She captioned the picture beautifully
“I use these instruments with a great pleasure and joy. However, at times I struggle to get the conventions imposed on me in my childhood out of my head. Nowadays, I, fortunately, know that the sky can go down and the earth can be on the top; there can be eight fingers and thirty-two ears. Everything is possible when you let the unconscious out – nothing is bad, nothing is good. The most important and the most difficult here is to have the trust in yourself. It is very difficult to switch off your head and stop judging yourself. It is uneasy to be a friendly viewer of your own true self. It takes an effort to learn. And, it is worth it.”