A breastfeeding mummy blogger has been left distraught after internet trolls labelled her toddler daughter a fat c***.
Amy McGlade, has shared some of the vile abuse she and her daughter have been subjected to by breastfeeding shamers online.
The 35-year-old is known as 'the breastmilk queen' on Instagram, where she has been sharing photos of her parenting journey with her four kids for the last six years in a bid to remove the stigma surrounding breastfeeding.
The midwife, who is from Adelaide Australia, shared pictures with her 50,000 followers on social media but has spoken out about the shocking comments and taunts she and her family have been called, reports The Mirror.
Speaking to Kidspot.com.au she explained how by sharing parts of her life online, it feels like she is "inviting people into her home".
She said: "I am inviting people into my home, I am sharing my children, my family and my life and I would hope you’d be kind. But name calling and attacking my children isn’t alright.
"[Trolls] have so much time for hate, and I just delete and block them but they keep coming."
She said people criticise her for breastfeeding her children when they are over a year old, calling her daughter names like "fat c***" and "hippo" and branding her "disgusting".
She added: "They say your kid is a fat little c*** that depends on you. Or that I am messing them up psychologically. They think I am damaging my kids."
"Everyone is OK with you breastfeeding a tiny baby, but as that baby grows older people expect that baby to be moved on to cow’s milk or a bottle. They don’t expect a baby with teeth, talking or walking to be breastfeeding. They expect you to stop.
"Breastfeeding a toddler is confronting to some people, they are not used to seeing it."
But surprisingly it's not only trolls who can't deal with the photos, other mums often share criticism as they don't understand why she posts what she does - which she finds even more upsetting.
The mum added that everyone who breastfeeds should be "proud" of what they are doing and "embrace it".
"It is the only way breastfeeding will be recognised as not just normal, but pretty cool. Breastfeeding needs to be seen to be understood. If we don’t see it, we are never going to understand it."
