A young mum has slammed trolls who have criticised her over her breastfeeding pictures.
Shania O'Neill, 18, from Blackpool, says she's constantly told she's 'disgusting' and 'looking for sexual attention' by openly breastfeeding her two-year-old daughter.
The mum fell pregnant at 16 with her daughter Isabella, and gets cruel and sexualised comments about her choice to breastfeed as she openly shares her journey.
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Posting about it on her TikTok account, she stated all the reasons why she shouldn't have to cover up.
College student Shania says she doesn't care where she is and will feed Isabella whenever she needs to – whether it be in the supermarket, on the bus, in a restaurant, or a shop – and doesn't feel the need to cover up with a blanket either.
Getting comments such as men asking for a turn and women telling her she's doing it for sexual attention, Shania doesn't plan on letting the crude remarks stop her and says how much of a bond she has gained with her daughter since breastfeeding her.
After posting her breastfeeding journey online, Shania often gets comments telling her she makes people uncomfortable, and men detailing how they pleasure themselves over her videos.
She explained: "I've learned to brush the comments off, their opinions are irrelevant. You wouldn't tell a woman feeding with a bottle to cover up the bottle.
"I've had comments such as men asking to be my stepson, they're jealous of my baby, and comparing it to being the same as masturbating in the street.
"I don't get why people think it's me looking for sexual attention and making it sexual, I am just doing something so natural that was seen as normal 60 years ago.
"I get so many comments online about what men do when watching my videos. As well as people saying how uncomfortable it makes them. I'm sorry feeding my daughter makes people feel uncomfortable."
She added: "Men also say it makes them hard watching my videos. I can't believe it, boobs are for feeding babies. It's a natural thing."
The comments online are the worst as she says 'everyone is against it', however, in public, she claims to have had quite a few positive responses, with people saying 'well done'.
She just brushes off any public haters, with Shania recalling: "One time I was out in public and I was feeding Isabella and someone came up to me and told me to use a blanket and cover up as they didn't want their child to see what I was doing. My baby comes before others so I don't let it affect me.
"I did cover-up at the start as I felt uneasy and it was hard with a blanket because I had to keep checking every two seconds underneath it so now I don't use one at all and it's much easier."
After falling pregnant at 16 whilst on the pill, Shania didn't know what to expect, and certainly didn't think she was going to breastfeed, especially not in public.
However, now her breastfeeding videos getting millions of views.
She added: "When I fell pregnant I was scared, I didn't know what to do as it was very unexpected as I fell pregnant on the pill.
"I never planned on breastfeeding, but when I did, it completely changed me.
"I would always think about how I was going to do it in public, but the more I went to the midwife and after speaking to my mum, I realised I wanted to do it and I'm so glad I did it."
She added: "It's created such an amazing bond, when she was born I didn't feel an attachment to her as I had four-day labour and I was in so much pain. I didn't want to hold her at the start but when she latched on to me it was such a different feeling.
"They do say as well they breastfeeding reduces postpartum depression by 50%.
"It was quite hard as when I had just had her I didn't have many friends once I had her. None of my friends had babies and they did want to be around someone with a baby, but I have now adapted to motherhood and have found other mums."
Shania says being a young mum is 'challenging' and 'harder than she thought' as she claims older women often think they can 'have a say over her child because she's so young'.
Men are also a problem too, as Shania added: "Men say things such as 'Can I have a turn' and I never reply but if I do, I will just say that boobs are for feeding babies and I will ignore them.
"I would recommend for mums to just go into it without a care in the world, your baby comes first."
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