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12th Mar 2016

Mother Has Smart Response For People Criticising Her Breastfeeding Photo

She's not taking any s**t.

Cathy Donohue

To support the Normalise Breastfeeding Movement, Maria Corry shared a photo of her breastfeeding her daughter.

The North Carolina mother captioned the photo: “I am not typically one to ever do this as I am very private when nursing, but with all this nonsense about people bashing other mothers for nursing, I decided to post this”.

“You can’t see much, but why do people get so worked up about this? Normalize breastfeeding! It’s nature! It’s what boobies are for!”

I am not typically one to ever do this as I am very private when nursing but with all this nonsense about people bashing…

Posted by Maria Corry on Wednesday, February 17, 2016

However, the photo was reported five times with Facebook users describing it as ‘inappropriate’.

Maria didn’t take the criticism lying down and decided to share another photo, this time holding a poster of a lingerie model while breastfeeding.

Her post has since gone viral with almost 37,000 likes, 8,000 shares and the story has featured in several major publications.

So since my breastfeeding photo which showed NOTHING got reported more than FIVE times, I'm posting this. I bet this won…

Posted by Maria Corry on Thursday, February 18, 2016

Main image via Maria Corry