A recent dad feels "Offended and discriminated against" behind the prohibition to enter to feed his daughter by the Neonatology service of the Regional Hospital of Torrevieja.
On December 21, José Antonio García went to the area where his daughter was to give him a bottle and when the nurses were about to enter they were not allowed to argue “Privacy grounds”. Apparently in the nursery there were other mothers who were breastfeeding their children.
According to this dad, if society "He is currently fighting against a macho world, in this case the opposite has been shown with impudence, showing that there is a great feminism, at least, by the hospital management."
José Antonio understands that mothers who breastfeed have or want privacy, "its normal", but “If a parent wants to give the bottle to his son, he also has the right and another place can be enabled for it., separated from the mothers who are breastfeeding. "Or that they put me facing the wall, but what has happened is not very normal"he added.
As a complaint of the facts, he has filed a complaint with the Hospital asking the management to bring the necessary measures against "This feminism" for "Make hospital stay easier for everyone."
In my view, a conflict of needs and rights was created. Breastfeeding mothers have the right to breastfeed their babies in an intimate climate if they wish, the girl had the need to be fed and the right to be accompanied by her father and the father had the right to be with his daughter and feed her.
I imagine that in the end the situation was resolved and I hope it was the father, finally, who gave the bottle to his daughter.
In support of the cause I want to take advantage of this post to make a personal claim: parents also want changers in public toilets. Either that, or I will be forced to enter the women's to change diapers.
