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Gurdwaras Need Nursing Rooms To Breastfeed Babies


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Oh right because gori's can't be Sikh in their own right ? :-/ breastfeeding in a toilet is disgusting and backwards , babies need milk, as long as it's done in a discrete manner I don't see a problem with it. I breastfed three babies wherever they needed feeding (and they can feed for thirty minutes or more) and wasn't going to spend half my life in a WC. A shawl is sufficient and I look forward to breastfeeding my next child whilst enjoying kirtan - why not. There is no shame in it. The shame is for pregnant or breastfeeding women to be locked away, how backwards ...

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AKaur very well put. 'Gori'? ...and the significance of that identification is what?

If there is no room then the men should go sit in the washroom if a mother needs to breastfeed. WhIle there hang our heads in shame. A hungry baby being fed by her or his mother is sacrosanct.

The fact that mothers resort to the washroom in multimillion dollar gurudwaras is another example of Sikhi, the epitome of equality and class beyond chivalry being hijacked by a backward mentality chasing paper dollars. It would not take much more than a multipurpose room which may already exist that offers courtesy to a hungry baby and mother. If need be there should be a dedicated room.

Sikhs by definition must not merely meet equality class and chivalry in the modern world but must lead and exceed. If that's not our understanding then we have no business defacing Sikhi to make it our mere social club.

What baffles me is people seem to pay more attention to each other, who comes in, who leaves, who's doing what than the Kirtan,Gurbani going on. I agree we need some sort of awareness to our round about but people seem to focus more on that than the actual reason their sitting in a Gurudwara.

Very well put.

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Oh right because gori's can't be Sikh in their own right ? :-/

She didn't look Sikh in that she was wearing a sari. Looked like someone having and loving a genuine 'ethnic experience'.

AKaur very well put. 'Gori'? ...and the significance of that identification is what?

Well, given the hoo ha by goray in their media over breastfeeding, with people being thrown out of shops for doing it, I think the women was probably positively happy and impressed about how Sikhs were pretty much nonchalant about it themselves.

Beyond breastfeeding rooms, personally I feel all Gurdwaras should also have an affordable, professional daytime babysitting thing going on.

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