Why Moms Mom-Shame
written by Molly Shea, published on parents.com
Lindsay Powers Eichmann had been a mother for three weeks when she experienced her first bout of mom-shaming. “We were at Target, and a woman came up to us and said, ‘Oh my goodness, what are you doing with a baby that small out in the world?!'” she recalls. Eichmann and her husband had been proud and relieved to make it out of the house, but the comment made her reconsider. Things snowballed from there.
“People would tell me ridiculous things,” she says. “When I was doing the cry-it-out method, someone said, “Oh, he’ll never attach to you—haven’t you heard of the Romanian orphans?” referring to decades-old research performed on severely neglected infants.