CALLED A PAEDOPHILE FOR BREASTFEEDING MY 7-YEAR-OLD

Sitting on the bench, I dropped my carrier bags, pulled up my top and moved my breast out of my bra. It was 2018, and I was in the middle of a packed shopping centre with two hungry mouths to feed. Being a single mum, I was used to multitasking – but it was the disapproving tuts and glares from passers-by that were hard to deal with.

‘Disgusting!’ a woman hissed at me, shaking her head in disbelief.

And it wasn’t just the breastfeeding that was drawing so much attention