Caption! Moms at the Nurse-In

Yahoo | 11/21/2006

[Responsibility2nd]

Protesting mothers breastfeed their babies at Washington DC's Ronald Reagan National Airport in front of the Delta Airlines ticket counter as part of a nation-wide protest after a woman was kicked off a Delta airplane by a flight attendant for nursing her child.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)

Mothers Danielle Shield (L) and Alison Yaker (R) read a book about breastfeeding with their children near the Delta Airlines counter at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts November 21, 2006 as part of a national 'Nurse-In' protest in support of women's right to breastfeed in public. On October 13, 2006 Emily Gillette was removed from a Delta/Freedom Air flight out of Burlington, Vermont after she refused to cover her baby with a blanket while breastfeeding on the plane before take-off. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES)

Danielle Mountford, left, of Woodstock, Conn., breast feeds her daughter, Alexa Ross, 2 1/2, as Susan Parker, right, of Glastonbury, Conn., holds her daughter Anna, at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn., Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006. Nursing mothers staged 'nurse-in' protests Tuesday to take up the cause of a woman ordered off a plane for breast-feeding her daughter too openly. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

[HairOfTheDog]

If you ask me, they all look terrific, and discreet, I might add.

It's a twisted society that loves a gal in a bikini, but gets all queasy about a mother nursing her child in a public place.

[austinaero]

I don't know. I have an 18 month old and they let us bring milk on in his bottles. We had to declare it and put it in a clear plastic bag. I don't know how much milk these kids would need, but I'd say the 24 ounces we brought on is probably more than comes out of the breast in a feeding or two. I stil don't know what these moms do when they aren't available for their children? What are the children supposed to do? Cry? For how long? Why foster a dependency? What happens when the mom has to take a narcotic because of some pain (toothache, backache, migraine). What then? The baby goes hungry? Some, not all, drugs pass into the breast milk,,,so,,let the baby have the medication with the mom? I don't think so.

[najida]

All I can think is the babarians are truly at the gates when people think breasts are for men and sex and that a child being fed by it is bad.

OK,
we're toast.

[elc]

Do you have kids?

[antti tuuri]

aren't any good looking women having babies?

[spacecowboynj]

Look folks, this is all very simple. I'll capitalize the one word that spells this out for everyone:

"And I want to remind Delta and make sure they know that ANY restrictions put on breast-feeding aren't good for mom or babies, and certainly not good for anyone on the plane unless you think a screaming baby is good for the passengers," she said.

Even asking them to do it discreetly? But of course! See, that's the problem with these whiners. They can't even handle a basic level of respect for someone else. You can't whip your breast out in a grocery store, you can't whip it out in a restaurant and show it around but YOU CAN in order to breastfeed so long as you DO IT DISCREETLY!

[cyborg]

Maybe he was a hater of the display of heterosexual female fertility. Just like the gay fashion designers who make models look like young boys.

[ErnBatavia]

He snuck in...

[najida]

So am I.
So do I.

[elc]

Yeah, because that would be comparable to feeding a child.

You're an idiot.

[The SISU kid]

If it was a subway in London it could be the Boob Tube.

LMAO!

That Sir, just got you added to my FF (Favorite FReeper) ping list!

8^)

[beezdotcom]

No, why is it obvious that if a child can talk, he can't BF anymore?

Keep asking. Maybe someone smarter than me will bother to answer.

I don't understand (and I need to re-write come infant feeding chapters in my textbooks) ;)

That does not surprise me.

[spacecowboynj]

"She was being extremely discrete. Nothing was showing. She was in the next to the last row next to a window with her husband on the aisle. The 'male' flight attendant handed her an airline blanket saying "I'M offended". I woulda stuck that blanket where the sun didn't shine.

Get your fact straight:

Woman kicked off plane for breast-feeding baby Files complaint saying she was being discreet, airline disagrees

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15720339/

[elc]

So what is discreet? You have to put a blanket of the baby?

Would you like to eat with a blanket over your head?

[HOTTIEBOY]

SET THEM PUPPIES FREE!

[austinaero]

It's not about your decision to nurse. It seems from your own post you were responsible. It's about the total picture. Nursing moms can nurse all day and night for all I care. Just be discrete, just like you were. Doing it for show in airport terminal to make a point is silly. Sorry. If a woman was removed from a flight because she was exposing herself while breastfeeding, that's one ok. IF she was removed because someone overracted, that's wrong. Breastfeeding doesn't give anyone the liberty to forego common sense and ignore others around them. That's really the point I am trying to make.

[austinaero]

4. Why?

[Chanticleer]

I nursed all four of my children until they were toddlers, and they are four of the most independent kids you'll ever meet.

What do you want your kid to turn to when he or she is in need -- an artificial substitute (blanket, stuffed animal) or the loving arms of a parent?

Toddlers who nurse generally eat food and drink water and maybe juice -- the breast milk is weaned away slowly. Most illnesses can be treated with safe medications. The mother often has to challenge the doctors on this -- they are quick to say just quit nursing without looking into alternatives. If a mother has to quit for medical reasons, what has been lost? The child had a few more months of breastmilk. That's a good thing.

[spacecowboynj]

"Would you like to eat with a blanket over your head?"

I've had two breast-feeding babies and both of them were breast-fed in public with a little blanket over the best and them feeding. Not only did they not mind it, I would argue that they were even more comfortable with it. Light and noise is blocked out and they're warmer. That's probably a leap for you to believe tho.

[Lazamataz]

Some people will leer and make comments. That's fine for them. For me, there is no sexuality whatsoever attached to breastfeeding. It is merely a beautiful, bonding moment between a mother and a child.