The twitter is full of bad stories about the bridezilla banishing breast-feeding moms to the restrooms.
Rachael Downs will never have done that.
In reality, Downs, a 28-year-old nurse in Alabama, invited her matron of honour, Allison Hepler, to pump photos of her bridesmaid-and now one of the shots is going viral.
The twitter is full of bad stories about the bridezilla banishing breast-feeding moms to the restrooms.
Rachael Downs will never have done that.
In reality, Downs, a 28-year-old nurse in Alabama, invited her matron of honour, Allison Hepler, to pump photos of her bridesmaid-and now one of the shots is going viral.
In the photo taken in October 2019, but only beginning to circulate on social media, Hepler is seen hooked up to her electric breast pump.
Instead of carrying a white bouquet like the other kids, Hepler grabs the white motor of her pump.
“The groomsmen finished their pictures early so I went to get Allison and she was like, ‘I just need to finish pumping’,” Downs recalled.
That’s when Downs and her photographer, Amber Fletcher, asked Hepler if she was going to pose with her pump.
Hepler felt it was such a brilliant idea.
“We never thought it would blow up the way it did,” Downs said. “But I’m glad it did.”
Comments-more than 2,000 of them-have been shared on Facebook.
“Best. Damn. Thing. On. The Internet. Kudos to you, that amazing bride/friend (not a selfish bone in her body), and this mumma who said, ‘I can be a good mum, and good friend, AND take care of my needs simultaneously’,” wrote one person.
Added another: “I love this. Support for the bride by being present and support for the bridesmaid by not making a fuss over having her pump. I wish I had friends like these.”