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)
Carry on, brave soul. I outta here, don't have time right now to argue with irrational people who deny the pictures right in front of their eyes.
It was a phrase I was using to make the point that there are times when babies and mommas are separated and the baby needs comfort. IF the parents have not tried at least to offer more than one avenue of comfort, then, it is the baby who suffers. That's my point. The dependency is not about being and 'addict' it's about a parent putting a baby in an avoidable situation. Do you see the difference.
I've been postpartum. I hate Vicodin, I never took it. Very little pass thru? Very little is all a newborn's system can stand. It is OK to take it and nurse I know. There are other things it is not ok to take and nurse. My point is, again, what is so awful about thinking ahead and trying to offset any extra distress on the part of the baby? Is that such a terrible concept?
For what it's worth, I'm with you and the others on this thread who see no problem whatsoever with a mom breast-feeding her kid.
Clue:
Kid... SMALL kid... hungry... fussy... needs food... needs nutrition... needs maternal comfort... there's ONE best place to get the entire from.
The finest nutrition on the planet. What breasts were made for.
And you have a zillion people who have no problem with Britney Spears or the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, but if a child needs feeding, they go nutso.
Sheesh.
Florida Statutes 847.001(9) A mother's breastfeeding of her baby does not under any circumstance constitute "nudity," irrespective of whether or not the nipple is covered during or incidental to feeding.
Well, it's clearly pissing off many FReepers.
Who posted this stupid thread in the first place? What moron didn't know a breast-feeding thread would result in some nasty name calling, vitriolic arguing, and heated debates?
Ohhh. I see. Nevermind.
kaPOW!!!!!!!! That, sir, ends the argument. Well done.
Try not to gawk and teach your children the same. Thats the real answer. Its completely natural and no one Ive ever seen breastfeeding flaunts it.
The flight attendant had her kicked off, and I would wager a good bit of money that before it's over & done with, Delta will issue the family an apology. Count on it.
(I am related to several Delta employees, and I assure you,it's not "their standards" that women can't breastfeed sans blanket on their airline.) I actually pity Delta, because they're getting a publicity blackeye from an incident caused by one flight attendant's discomfort with "breeders" & their offspring.
I understand that. I asked why it ~should~.
You know, ~why~ do we do, not just ~what~ we do.
Nothing necessarily wrong with that. It's not the norm here in the States, but it's not immoral.
I think Delta fired the attendant and I agree with you that they will most likely issue an apology but not because they are wrong (they are totally right), but because they don't want the bad press.
Sorta like those poor Toyota execs issuing an apology after Jesse Jackson shook them down for racism. Pathetic.
I'll bet you anything this mother was in on the "movement" and that the little organization NIPPLES IN PUBLIC FOR EVERYONE was waiting in the wings for this to happen or, (IMAGINE THIS) that they actually staged it.
That might be a bit too much to imagine for some sappy heads tho.
You're not even making sense now. But you obviously are all twitchy about the thought of breastfeeding. Perhaps with intensive psychoanalysis you might eventually hope to deal with your deep-seated neurosis.
I seriously thought Conservatives would overwhelmingly side with a mother feeding her baby naturally.
It seems we argue about every subject. unghh
Well, I actually agree with you, personally, as I taught my children to accept breastmilk from both breast and bottle--but many women don't ever introduce a bottle, especially if they aren't planning to return to the workforce, and I think that is perfectly OK.
It's a rare mother who needs surgery and heavy meds within the first few months of her baby's life.
Also, some breastfed babies absolutely refuse bottles. I've known several babies like that. It's really only a problem if the mother is not a full time stay-at-home mom.
Ok, we've established that you can't understand that some people might be offended not by breastfeeding but breastfeeding that involves them or their kids seeing a woman's nipple. We've cleared that up.
seriously.
When was the last time you saw a real nipple in public?
People seem pretty freaked out over the possibility, but in all my years I've just never seen it happen. It's all just a lot of tilting at windmills.
Hey, sunshine, you still haven't pointed out where people were advocating for a women's right to "flash her nipples at other people". Like you asserted in post 208, and again in this post.
How do you actually KNOW that all others find it inconsiderate, and would find a bottle of formula to be less so? The truth of it is, you don't. You are simply projecting your version of what is consideration on everyone else.
I, for one, find it sad and disturbing to see a baby fed a bottle of formula. To me, it shouts of the mother's basic inconsideration of what is best for her baby. I'd find it more considerate of her to nurse.
So whose version of consideration should she follow ?
If it offended me, I'd simply look the other way. I see lots of stuff these days that offends me; I guess where you and I part views (and I become a SWINE LIBERAL) is that I don't feel entitled to ask the world to uphold my ideas of what is considerate.
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