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India | Taj Mahal to become country's first historic monument to offer breast-feeding room

The Taj Mahal, built as a monument to a woman who died in childbirth, is set to get a baby feeding room in a first for India where conservative attitudes toward public breastfeeding mean nursing mothers are often shamed and told to cover up.


Vasant Kumar Swarnkar, a top official at the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) in Agra city – home to the Taj Mahal – said the baby feeding room would be set up by July to help the “millions of mothers who visit with their babies”.


https://thenortheasttoday.com/taj-mahal-becomes-first-indian-monument-with-breastfeeding-room/

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