Waikato woman posts photo of herself breastfeeding while pushing supermarket trolley

New Zealand woman Jacinta Moana posted a photo of herself breastfeeding her son while shopping. Photo: Cinta moana/Facebook

A Waikato woman has posted a photo of herself breastfeeding her son while pushing a trolley in the supermarket.

Jactina Moana, 18, took her twin boys with her as she went grocery shopping when one of her sons began crying.

Moana spoke to FEMAIL about her decision to breastfeed in public and to post the photo to social media.

"He started crying and I knew he was hungry," she said.

"I didn't want him to be screaming and kicking around so I decided to feed him in public."

"I wasn't going to let him starve and I didn't really care what people thought."

Although Moana and her family were in the shop for around two hours, she said she was only breastfeeding for half an hour.

"When I was walking around I did get a few stares, but I didn't mind what people were thinking while I was feeding," she said.

In her Facebook post, Ms Moana said: "Honestly mommy's have no shame if your babies are hungry feed them don't worry about what other a******s think because I wouldn't leave my babies starve that's for sure." (sic)

Moana, who's sons are five-months-old, said women should be proud to be mums.

"I posted the photo because I wanted mums to be proud to breastfeed in public and be proud to be a mum," she said.

The young mum said the response to her post, which has been shared over 400 times since Tuesday, has been mainly positive.

"Most of the comments have been positive and kind," she said.

"It's been so nice to have people sharing my post and getting the message out there.

"There has only been one mean comment but the person is young so probably wouldn't understand what was happening."

For the new mum, Ms Moana just wanted to get the message out to other mothers that they should not be shy.

"I wanted to tell mothers out there to have the confidence to do anything."