Actor Kate Hudson has been praised for sharing a photo on social media showing her breastfeeding her baby while at work.
On Saturday (January 12), the 39-year-old mother-of-three uploaded the picture to Instagram, which showed her breastfeeding her three-month-old daughter, Rani Rose.
Since doing so, the star has been flooded with positive messages from fans, who’ve thanked her for normalising breastfeeding and showing the reality of it.
The image, which was taken by Chilean-born photographer Nino Muñoz, was captioned by Hudson:
When you’re workin but babies gotta eat 🍼💕 (Love you @ninomunoz 📷)
The How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days star received plenty of praise, with one person writing:
Thank you for sharing and empowering nursing mums everywhere. Seeing you could quite literally give a mama the courage and strength to continue through all the trials.
While one mum commented:
From a mum who was shamed for breastfeeding both babies: thank you for helping to normalise something beautiful and natural.
Hudson, like many other mothers, are aware of how difficult it can be to juggle breastfeeding alongside a working life.
Speaking on The Today Show, she said:
I’m breastfeeding constantly now and I’m trying to figure out how to balance the breastfeeding and the work, which is always a mother’s challenge.
Even mums that have multiple kids, and it’s just hard with the pumping. I have one friend who is a milk machine.
I wish I was a milk machine. I’m not. I need to pump and I need to be on it.
Rani Rose is Hudson’s first child with her boyfriend, musician Danny Fujikawa. The couple welcomed the baby last year on October 2, and shared her first photo with fans a few days later.
The Almost Famous actor captioned the adorable image:
Our little rosebud
Hudson also has two older sons; 15-year-old Ryder with musician Chris Robinson – former lead singer of rock band The Black Crowes – and seven-year-old Bingham, whose father is musician Matthew Bellamy of Muse.
She also revealed she’s thought about having more children with boyfriend Danny, saying:
I always thought I’d have four to six kids. At one point I was like, ‘Oh, maybe I’m done’, and then I met Danny and was like, ‘Alright, I got to pump them out for him.’ He needs a boy. He needs his own boy.
According to the NHS, formula milk does not provide the same protection from illness and does not give you any health benefits, but regardless, a mother breastfeeding her hungry child shouldn’t be anything unusual if you happen to see it.
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