well....I guess they could have given the 2 YEAR OLD a cracker or a sandwich so that he wouldn't starve!
I think that you need to get a better mental picture of this, the kid was almost two years old, that means walking, talking and chewing. The kid was probably standing on the chair next to his mother when she whipped out her boob for him.
I used to know a woman who used let her kid nurse on the beach, while standing up. The kid would go in the water and run around and every once in awhile run up to his mother and pull down her bathing suit and start nursing.
--I guess the baby should starve because the flight was three hours late?--
No. She should have used the blanket as requested.
I've been through this situation myself. We were stuck on the tarmac at O'Hare for 3 1/2 hours when we were travelling to Florida for a Labor Day weekend event. Our three kids under the age of 5 were along with us for the long weekend "vacation". I ran out of bottle liquid for my youngest. Changing diapers? Fuggedaboudit. Keep in mind that as long as we were sitting on the tarmac we were in "active taxi" even though the plane didn't move an inch for 3 1/2 hours, while we were waiting for a break in the thunderstorm system. I have never been so strung out or irritable in my entire life.
If you ever get a chance to be around children, you will discover that 22 month olds are not babies. By that age, they should be able to chow down on crackers, pretzels (preferably unsalted) or just about anything else they want.
I guess the baby should starve because the flight was three hours late?<<<<<<<<<<<<<
All of these nursing stories revolve around the mother doing the noble thing for the good of the baby by breastfeeding it in public. If my child's welfare was foremost in my mind (and I raised 2 as a mom), I would have accepted the blanket graciously and made the best of it. Frankly, I'd have had a cloth diaper or something similar already with me for feedings during an airplane flight or while waiting at the airport.
I don't understand women dragging little babies to heck and gone in shopping malls for hours spanning their feeding time, either.
That they are nursing the baby is fantastic, but the rest of the world doesn't need to come to a halt to accomodate same. When my daughter in law needed to go out for longer than a quick errand, she provided pumped milk for my son to give to the baby or she took the baby with her and fed him the milk. Any other time, if the baby got hungry unexpectedly or they got stuck someplace, she was discrete and nobody noticed. Seems awfully reasonable to me.
I breastfed in public, and I breastfed discreetly, but no 22 month old MUST be breastfed in view of others. In fact, a lot of 22 month olds wouldn't nurse under a blanket, which is why you make alternative feeding arrangements.