Breastfeeding mother is left outraged after she was told to COVER UP in a dentist’s waiting room

Breastfeeding mother is left outraged after she was told to COVER UP in a dentist’s waiting room because teenage boys are sitting nearby.

A breastfeeding mother was left ‘humiliated’ after she was told to cover up while nursing her daughter in a dentist’s waiting room.

Suzie Ramirez, 24, of Moultrie, Georgia, claims staff told her to place a blanket over her daughter’s head or move into another room because she was making teenage boys feel uncomfortable.

In a video filmed by Mrs Ramirez of the incident, a member of staff appears to suggest teenage boys sitting nearby do ‘not look at breastfeeding in the same way’.

She adds: ‘This is not your home. This is an office, okay?’

Speaking after the incident, Mrs Ramirez said: ‘I feed my baby in large public places and never have a problem.

‘I couldn’t believe this was happening, especially in a dentist’s office. I felt humiliated, embarrassed, angry. A lot of feelings at once.’

The incident took place when Mrs Ramirez visited A Confident Smile in Thomasville, Georgia, with her four children and husband Selvin Oliva, 28, last Thursday.

‘I thought she had put it on me in case the baby was cold, but the blanket was really heavy and Dianerys started fussing.

‘I put the blanket to the side and I saw the woman from the desk look up. She started waving her finger at me. She repeated again “there’s teenagers here”.’

Mrs Ramirez said she asked the teenagers whether they were uncomfortable and they said ‘no’.

The mother continued: ‘She suggested teenagers don’t see it as just breastfeeding. She said if I didn’t want to use the blanket I could go into a different room.

‘I wasn’t doing anything wrong at all. I wasn’t showing my to anyone.’

Mrs Ramirez added that she wanted to share her experience because she didn’t want other women to feel shamed for ‘something so natural and healthy’.

She added: ‘I don’t want other mothers to go through what I went through. They should feel confident when feeding their babies.’

A spokesperson for the clinic denied staff were trying to ‘control’ Mrs Ramirez and said there had been ‘a miscommunication’.