Designer Breast Feeding Blouses for Ugandan Mothers

Breast feeding in the developed world is a very personal affair. This unfortunately, is not the case in Uganda. The rural Ugandan woman does not care dangling her breast in public because they believe a woman with a breast is a real woman. Infact, many women interviewed on this new breasfeeding blouse felt it was a misplaced innovation because, they don’t mind at all, breastfeeding their babies in public nomatter what kind of attire they are dressed up in.

A Ugandan woman who lives in Norway  has returned home to Kampala with a new innovation for breast feeding mothers. She has designed a breast feeding blouse that allows mothers to breast feed their babies in public without exposing so much of their breast for all to see. The blouses have been designed in such a manner that very little of the breast gets out of the blouse it self, yet inspite of this, the baby would still be able to comfortably access the teats and suckle.

True to these views, I have on several occasions seen women, both the rural and urban, pull out their breasts in taxis, at meetings or at public galas without any qualms, to feed their babies and nobody regards this as unseemly.

I can only say that whereas the idea of a breast feeding blouses is a good one, only a few women will go for them because many think it is an unnecessary cost. One blouse costs $25 yet a nice second hand blouse at a City store costs as little as $1! Am afraid, this project may not take off in Uganda-may be this Ugandan woman should take her brilliant idea back to Norway and/or other European countries where women fear to expose their breasts in Public.