Breastfeeding model while walking on the runway, prompting debate | news from the world

An American model made a splash while nursing his granddaughter on a Miami footbridge – not a small gesture in a country where many women still feel uncomfortable in public.

Walking on the Runway at a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Parade On Sunday, Mara Martin pulled out a sparkling gold bikini while Aria, a five-month-old girl, was going out for the night. 39, occasion with a green swimsuit and a noise-canceling headphones.

In an Instagram post the next day, Martin expressed his thanks. mbadively positive public response – which far exceeds the handful of messages on his social media feed criticizing the movement as "not appropriate" or even "rude."

"I can not believe I wake up with the headlines with me and my daughter in them to do something that I do every day, "she writes. "It's really so humiliating and unreal to say the least."

"I am so grateful to be able to share this message and, I hope, normalize badfeeding and show others that women can do anything!"

Martin and the organizers interviewed Tuesday on NBC's "Today," it was a spontaneous decision to badfeed Aria on the runway.

"She was getting a little hungry and it was her dinner time, because the show was still being pushed back," Martin said "Today."

So when one of the teams suggested she go and look after her on the track, she said yes.

The debate on badfeeding is resurfacing regularly in the United States, where women are strongly encouraged to badfeed their babies, even though many return to work in the weeks following childbirth.

While all but a few US states grant legal protection to badfeeding mothers in public, much of society remains reluctant to this practice. Case of women bei He was asked to cover himself by feeding babies in restaurants, shops or on public transport, making sporadic headlines in the country – with "nurse-ins" protesting to demand wider acceptance of the practice

. Related controversy, President Donald Trump weighed this month to defend women's "access" to formula milk after the United States was accused of torpedoing a World Health Organization resolution (WHO) to promote badfeeding

at six months of age, and partial badfeeding for two years or more.

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