Bride Breastfeeds During Ceremony

Bride Breastfeeds During Ceremony

A Bride Breastfeeds during her wedding ceremony, is that crazy or not?  I see it as odd but hardly a reason to pop off a negative comment as so many have done.. It is the natural way to feed a child, right?

"One poster wrote: ‘Babies should come after the wedding. I bet guests were pretty uncomfortable. Jeez".

“Some people are just plain rude. Some people compare breastfeeding to all sorts of ridiculous things and have really weird points of view on the topic,” said Torino-Benton.

"I'm a bit surprised to be honest. Before I posted this I had never felt negativity or judgement towards breastfeeding at all.”




Christina Torino-Benton started quite a firestorm with her social media pictures of her wedding where she can be seen breastfeeding her nine month old daughter.

The mother of two captioned her photo: ‘Talk about feeding anytime and anywhere. That moment when you’re getting married and your baby gets hungry. Feeling SO proud of myself. Benton, resides in Montreal, Quebec, told the Daily Mail: “At the church it was like 40 degrees, Gemma was hot, she missed her nap and was overall really crabby.”

“I never expected it to go viral like this. I thought I'd get a few likes from my breastfeeding peers and that's that,” she said.

“I think sharing photos like this is important. Things like this do happen. I'm not the first and I won't be the last and hopefully people will be more accepting and understanding.”

I'm not the first and I won't be the last and hopefully people will be more accepting and understanding
Christina Torino-Benton

“I don't pump or bottle feed and I'm all about secure attachment parenting. She's never left to cry so when she started crying I couldn't focus on my wedding. All I was thinking about was taking her and nursing because I knew that was the only solution.

“Once I got her in my arms, I was able to calm down and focus. A lot of people think that my feeding her mid ceremony was a bother but actually it was nice having her up there with us.”

The wedding wasn't impacted at all, most guest had no idea the feeding took place.


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