This free-the-nipple mama wants anti-breastfeeding whiners to suck it up!
Whipping out her bare boobs in public has become second nature to a Gen Z mother who’s refusing to cover up while nursing her daughter — even though online freaks say they masturbat* to the display.
“It could be anywhere; the tram, bus, a restaurant, I could be pushing the [stroller] in a shop and I’ll feed her wherever we are,” boasted mom of one Shania O’Neill, 18, from the UK, to Caters.
But her unabashed milking has resulted in some offensively sour remarks from cynics.
“Men say things such as ‘Can I have a turn?’ ” she said, adding that they’ve, too, asked to be her stepson, and have admitted to pleasuring themselves by “tugging” their genitals while watching her breastfeed.
“Men also say it makes them hard watching my videos,” said O’Neill. “I can’t believe it, boobs are for feeding babies. It’s a natural thing.”
“I don’t get why people think it’s me looking for sexual attention and making sexual comments,” the doting mother continued. “I am just doing something so natural that was seen as normal 60 years ago.”
O’Neill, who’s virally shared images of her 2-year-old daughter Isabella suckling her breast on TikTok, unexpectedly became pregnant at age 16 while on birth control.
As a teen parent, she never planned to become a social media advocate for public breastfeeding.
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“When I fell pregnant I was scared. I didn’t know what to do as it was very unexpected as I fell pregnant on the pill,” said O’Neill, who confessed that she didn’t experience a strong emotional attachment to her baby, initially.
“I never planned on breastfeeding, but when I did, it completely changed me,” she said. “It’s created such an amazing bond.”
And she’s far from alone in her decision to breastfeed her bundle of joy — with whom she endured a “painful,” four-day-long labor.
In fact, a busty mother known on TikTok as @MsCalciumCannons98 went viral in December after being virtually slu*t-shamed for unashamedly breastfeeding her son in the middle of a grocery store.
And across the US, a whopping 83.2% of infants are nursed by willing moms, per a 2020-2021 survey via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report added that over 55% of newborns continued to be breastfed past the 6-month mark.
The nourishing practice has been scientifically praised for its many health benefits for both mother and child.
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According to the CDC, breastmilk can protect babies against some short- and long-term illnesses such as asthma, obesity, Type 1 diabetes and sudden infant death syndrome. Likewise, breastfeeding moms are at reduced risk of breast and ovarian cancer, Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.
O’Neill added, “They do say as well that breastfeeding reduces postpartum depression by 50%.”
But when she first began nursing, the unpracticed parent was afraid to do it in broad daylight.
“I did cover up at the start as I felt uneasy, and it was hard with a blanket because I had to keep checking every two seconds underneath it,” she said. “So now I don’t use one at all, and it’s much easier.”
“I would always think about how I was going to do it in public,” added the mother, “but the more I went to the midwife and after speaking to my mom, I realized I wanted to do it and I’m so glad I did it.”
O’Neill has since learned to ignore the negativity from “irrelevant” guys and judgmental women, who feel she should breastfeed in private.
“I’ve learned to brush the comments off, their opinions are irrelevant,” she said, noting that another mother asked her to cover herself while nursing because she didn’t want her son to witness the partial nudity.
“You wouldn’t tell a woman feeding with a bottle to cover up the bottle,” O’Neill retorted. “My baby comes before others, so I don’t let it affect me.
“I’m sorry feeding my daughter makes people feel uncomfortable.”
The online and in-person shade spurred by her unabashed breastfeeding aside, O’Neill encourages her fellow mommies to do what’sbreastfor their little ones.
“I would recommend for moms to just go into it without a care in the world,” she advised. “Your baby comes first.”
