An Icelandic lawmaker breast-fed her baby while giving a parliamentary speech — and no one cared
Unnur Bra Konradsdottir was faced with a dilemma. The Icelandic lawmaker was sitting in parliament Wednesday, breastfeeding her 6-week-old daughter, when she was unexpectedly called to respond to a bill.
Konradsdottir, who has been an MP — a member of the Althing, the country’s parliament — since 2009, walked up to the lectern with her baby still at her breast. In full view of her fellow lawmakers and television cameras, she delivered her remarks with her daughter nursing quietly.
“It’s like any job: You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do,” Konradsdottir later told Agence France-Presse. “It is the most natural thing in the world.”
If she was nervous, it didn’t show in videos of the session. And if any of her fellow lawmakers were surprised, that didn’t show either.
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The rest of the world is so much more mature and sophisticated than we are.
It really isn't much of an issue in other countries
