World Breastfeeding Week: Dia Mirza says feeding babies in public triggers shame and judgement

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated globally from August 1 - August 7 and this year's theme focuses on how breastfeeding contributes to the survival, health and wellbeing of all. It also highlights how important it is to protect the right to breastfeed worldwide. Actor, producer and champion for nature Dia Mirza says, "We should not need a special occasion to acknowledge how important it is to disseminate awareness and correct information about breastfeeding. As a new mom,  breastfeeding and related issues have become even more meaningful to me than ever before. I have become even more acutely aware of the lack of safe spaces for new mothers especially if they happen to be socially and economically marginalised. Why is it that we have never mainstreamed the conversation about how hard it is for underserved mothers to feed their babies on construction sites, farms and roadside stalls without any privacy?"

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