Posted on 11/21/2006 12:07:21 PM PST by 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)
Neither have I. For the record, and knowing only what I learned on this thread, I'd say the flight attendant was wrong.
My wife and I flew from VA Beach with our three month old son, and on take-off, he needed a little soothing to calm down. So my wife nursed him very discreetly, and the people surrounding us were very understanding and supportive---even thankful (i.e., no screaming kid). Seems like this flight attendant may have escalated this issue unneccessarily.
I assume this has actually happened to you. A woman stuck her TEET in your child's face. You wouldn't make it up just to justify your twisted phobias about breastfeeding?
"Only sucking does that. What if the parent doesn't believe in using pacifiers?"
AGAIN, not the point. The point is discretion, not whether breastfeeding should be allowed or not. Those ladies at the ticket counter were not dealing with pressure changes in the ears...
AND
chewing and movement of the jaw (which happens during sucking) help the ears.
Chewing and massage help the ears as well as position changes. Depending on the rate of descent, sucking on a bottle or a breast doesn't always help the ears either.
Babies suck on many things,,,as you may have noticed in the baby section at Target. Fingers work well in a pinch. Some babies are even encouraged to suck on the back of their hand, to learn how to self-comfort. God, is the answer to every baby need to shove a breast in it's mouth?
I still don't understand how discretion is offensive.
There's a time and place for being a liberal swine....on a plane...NOPE. Take a bottle for the consideration of others.
The flight attendant's sex is moot on this discussion. Whether the woman was being discreet or not is the issue and the airline says she was not. They offered her a blanket to breastfeed discreetly and she refused so they kicked her butt off their plane (GO DELTA!)
I've nursed four children until they were toddlers. I could never nurse with the baby's head under a blanket--too hot for me and the baby, and the baby would always pull the blanket right off!
I asked a question.
What are you, a policeman or something?
I love the ones here saying that a breast is for feeding so it's ok to flash your nipples at other people because you can't be expected to breastfeed discreetly because, you know, it's made for that.
My penis is made for some things too. Urination and procreation. Doesn't mean I need to flash it at you.
It isn't. The women in the protest photos above are all being discreet and people ~still~ have a problem with it.
"Is something wrong with your neck that prevents your head from turning the other away?"
That's exactly what I do. What a snotty reply. You are quite the problem solver. I guess discretion is just way too far out a concept for you to grasp. HOw DARE the general public ask for a small amount of decency? Hell, why not stand up for everyone on the plane to see? Leave the bathroom door open when you go, I'll just turn my head and look the other way,,,oh, and I"ll make sure my children keep their heads turned because we wouldn't want to step on your widdle feelings.
Grow up.
Although the article seems to center around discreet breastfeeding, the comments here seem to be more centered around the age of the nursing children.
As I said before, toddlers who are nursed don't generally survive on only breastmilk. They have food, they have juice, they do take comfort from Dad or Grandma or whoever. Many breastfed babies take a bottle or sippy cup of pumped and frozen breastmilk.
Not all babies will take a bottle -- none of mine were keen on it. I suppose that if a medical emergency occurred and they were forced to, they would when they were hungry enough. Could these moms have brought frozen breast milk in a bottle to feed their babies? Probably. Should they have to? Not in my opinion.
"...Believe it or not, some people even have religious issues with the exposure."
Yes, the Taliban. Thus another good reason to breastfeed.
Many postpartum mothers take vicodin and very little passes though to the breastmilk.
It is perfectly fine to exclusively breastfeed an infant. Many, many women do, all over the world, throughout all of history, including in these United States in 2006. It is not "fostering a dependency." LOL! You crack me up.
"My penis is made for some things too. Urination and procreation. Doesn't mean I need to flash it at you."
That is really twisted to try to compare the 2.
Amen!!
Perhaps you have a legitimate disability that makes reading comprehension difficult for you-- if so, I apologize in advance. However, please point to where anyone says she should not do it "discretely"? This issue is, to most, what is discrete?
I also miss in the story where it says she was "flashing her nipples at other people", or where anyone on this thread has said flashing nipples is to be commended. Could you point me to that portion of the article?
Delta kicked her butt off because they felt she was not being discreet after they asked her too. It's their plane and their standards, not yours.
Based on your replies, I'd say you're either about 9 years old, or wish you were. Twitchy little fella, aincha?
It's ironic because essentially they are arguing they have a right not to be offended, which is one of the very things we often find fault with here on FR when we find liberals doing it.
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