Mom Gets Free Pizza for Breastfeeding in Public

While moms in the past have been shamed for publicly breastfeeding, one mom, Jackie Johnson-Smith, had quite a different experience while eating at an Iowa pizza parlor.

Johnson-Smith posted a photo of her family's dinner receipt on Facebook.

"I bought one of your pizzas...Please thank your wife for breastfeeding!!" a waitress wrote on her receipt.

"I have breastfed three children... I have breastfed them in countless of places both pleasant and unpleasant, discreetly and out in the open. I have gotten many looks and stares, but tonight erases any negativity I have ever received," the mom wrote on her Facebook. "I ate at Fongs for the first time tonight. Having a fussy baby I nursed him for awhile in the booth and eventually left the table early as to not disrupt the restaurant. The waitress gave this receipt to my husband. I was speechless and emotional. Although I don't need a pat on the back for feeding my child, it sure felt amazing. It is amazing how we women can make each other feel when we empower each other."

Waitress Bodi Kinney is the waitress behind the note on Johnson-Smit's bill, according to KCCI 8 News in Des Moines.

"We need to come together and support each other when it comes to nursing our children," Kinney told the news station.

As of Thursday morning, the receipt had been shared more than 2,000 times on Facebook. British poet Holly McNish recently spoke up against the attacks on breastfeeding in public through her poem, "Embarassed" posted on YouTube. McNish was told to stay home the first time she breastfed in public, leading her to feed her daughter in bathrooms for six months out of embarrassment. 

"I wrote this poem in a public toilet after my six month old baby fell asleep," McNish said in the video's description.