Amiens: at the CAF, a mother forbidden to breastfeed her 4-month-old baby – 24/07/2018

A mother was prevented from badfeeding her 4-month-old daughter by a security guard and a counselor from the Caisse d'Allocations Familiales (CAF) of the Somme, in Amiens. The woman and her companion intend to put down a handrail.

This is a story that raises the issue of badfeeding in public. Like model Mara Martin, who had paraded while badfeeding her daughter in the United States and had been violently criticized by Internet users, a woman who wanted to badfeed her baby in the waiting room of the Family Allowances Fund ( CAF) of Amiens (Somme) was sharply reprimanded by two employees, reports Courrier Picard .

Thursday, July 19, Mélanie Wavrant goes to the CAF with his companion and his daughter aged 4 months "to mention a change of situation". Because of the heat, the couple does not want to feed the baby in their car and decides to do it in the premises of the CAF, cooler and convenient place to feed the little girl. "We went into the reception area, and we did not take a ticket right away. I went to the side, a little apart, to badfeed. I was up. I took a bib so that badfeeding could be discreet, but I did not even have time to properly put my daughter in the bad, "says Mélanie.

The young mother then tells that the agent of security and a CAF advisor have strongly forbidden him to bad feed his baby. "They told me: you should be ashamed to do that in front of everyone. There are children, it is not done! ". They even asked him to leave the premises but Mélanie Wavrant did not dismount: "I was shocked, but I did not go out. I stayed. I replied that I had the right to badfeed my daughter, that I was not going to let her starve. "

" I felt discriminated against "

Mélanie Wavrant deplores the behavior of the agents "We were almost humiliated. I felt discriminated against. Louane's father adds, "It's completely abnormal. How is it possible to react like that, especially to the CAF, a symbolic place of the family! "

The people present at the CAF and witnesses of the scene, they, expressed their support for the young woman:" They came to see me saying that it did not bother them that I'm badfeeding, that c are they who should be ashamed. "

A" reflex perhaps unfortunate "

The management of the CAF, questioned by the Courrier Picard is said" surprised "facts. "Of course we do not have a policy to exclude moms wanting to badfeed in our premises," says Anne Upravan, deputy director of CAF Amiens. She adds that only one instruction is given to the agents when a woman badfeeds her child in the premises: "Accompany the mother to a suitable place". According to her, all would be a misunderstanding and speaks of a "maybe unfortunate reflex" of the two men.

The couple plans to file a handrail with the police station of Amiens to make the incident .