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Caption! Moms at the Nurse-In
Yahoo | 11/21/2006

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)


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To: chiefqc

We are pigs, and I'm not the least bit ashamed of it. If they flop 'em out I'm looking. Oink, oink!


301 posted on 11/21/2006 3:24:54 PM PST by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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To: tfecw

Now we know where the complaints came from.


302 posted on 11/21/2006 3:32:54 PM PST by SmithL (Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
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To: ExpatGator
Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting I thought a visual might be in order. LOL MM
303 posted on 11/21/2006 3:34:10 PM PST by motormouth (Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

"So many ti...ti....ti...Breasts ---so little time!"


304 posted on 11/21/2006 3:37:29 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Responsibility2nd
Some pretty homely lookin' nursers.

If you have to watch an attention whore, might as well do it right:


305 posted on 11/21/2006 3:41:50 PM PST by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Some of the women were on tonight's news. I didn't see any "babies" hanging on the ones they showed, the "babies" in question looked like they were about three and the women could just barely lift those big old "babies" off the ground. None of my business, but the kids looked like they were old enough to wean a year ago. Asking a woman to cover her breast isn't unreasonable; but it was obvious these women had issues beyond "nursing babies".


306 posted on 11/21/2006 3:43:58 PM PST by Twinkie (SEE MIA T. ARTICLES OF FORBIDDEN INFORMATION . . . . .IF YOU DARE . . .)
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To: Twinkie
Look at that "baby" in post 49. I'm all for breast-feeding, but when junior learns how to feed himself, is potty trained, going to school, etc. etc.....

Time to park those mammaries.

307 posted on 11/21/2006 3:51:52 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning)
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To: Fawn
There's a time and place for being a liberal swine....on a plane...NOPE. Take a bottle for the consideration of others.

I'm completely neutral on the original story (I wasn't there) but food for thought - my youngest would NOT take a bottle EVER, not even one with breast milk in it.

She was an odd one all around - never used a pacifier, hated formula and baby food, went straight from the breast to sippy cups and solid food.

Point is though, if it had been me on that plane, I'd have had little choice but to breastfeed. However, I'd have also made sure I was covered up.

308 posted on 11/21/2006 4:06:59 PM PST by agrace (http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/agrace/)
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To: shhrubbery!
Some people are just upset at the sight of a nursing mother, no matter how discreet she is. It is they who have a problem, not the mother.

If it were truly discreet, who would notice to complain?

I'm not upset by nursing mothers, I'm bothered by nursing mothers who make a spectacle of it in public places. While some may manage to do it as discreetly as you describe, the ones I've seen have not been nearly as MODEST. I don't want to have to feel like I'm intruding on an intimate moment, or look away from flopping white flesh. We are not "pack mammals" (good lord!), nor are we living in a 3rd world hell hole, where all manner of human familiarity is the norm. Other than war refugees, or people fleeing hurricanes, most mothers can manage to schedule feedings so doing so in confined public places is not necessary.

It's one thing for mothers to feel "natural" breast feeding in public; it's another thing to have the maturity to realize that others may be less comfortable with it.

309 posted on 11/21/2006 4:09:46 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass
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To: American Quilter
Exhibitionists. Do they urinate in public, too? That's also a natural function, after all.

Amen, and I find the photo in the above link #7 to be disgusting (note the smirk on her face. This is the kind of stunt that is done solely for "shock value." Their mothers should have taught them some manners because I don't believe their mothers would have ever done such a thing without a blanket at the least and most probably left the room.

310 posted on 11/21/2006 4:13:01 PM PST by Snoopers-868th
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To: Responsibility2nd
The worst I heard was a woman who breast fed her kid when he was about five. He'd say, "What did you today mommy? It tastes terrible!"

2 1/2 is way too old to be on breastmilk still. You can get cow's milk at the grocery store...

311 posted on 11/21/2006 4:17:33 PM PST by Koblenz (The Dem Platform, condensed: 1. Tax and Spend. 2. Cut and Run. 3. Man on Man)
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To: Chanticleer
Uh, except at the beach, at Hooters, on tv, in the movies, on the silliness threads . . . . What you really mean is that nursing is not the cultural norm.

(Partially) bare breasts and (partially) disrobed women, while perhaps normal at the beach, Hooters, on tv, the movies, etc., are NOT the norm at restaurants, shopping malls, airplanes, city buses, etc.

312 posted on 11/21/2006 4:19:02 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass
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To: Koblenz
2 1/2 is way too old to be on breastmilk still. You can get cow's milk at the grocery store...

Buuut, the cow can't get milk at the grocery store.

313 posted on 11/21/2006 4:19:56 PM PST by Snoopers-868th
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To: spacecowboynj
My penis is made for some things too. Urination and procreation. Doesn't mean I need to flash it at you.

And I appreciate that.... :)

314 posted on 11/21/2006 4:31:38 PM PST by Fawn (NEVER GO TO 'APPLIANCE KING' IN BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA--THEY SCAM YOU!!!)
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To: Red Boots
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.

You're right. I should of said only people who have respect for themselves and others would be offended..

PS...put your own milk in the bottle when you take plane, bus, train trips and spare us.

315 posted on 11/21/2006 4:33:58 PM PST by Fawn (NEVER GO TO 'APPLIANCE KING' IN BOYNTON BEACH, FLORIDA--THEY SCAM YOU!!!)
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To: ExpatGator

I agree, it's just the double standard that is used.


316 posted on 11/21/2006 4:40:34 PM PST by chiefqc
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To: Responsibility2nd

One "baby" is eating a steak... ewww!


317 posted on 11/21/2006 4:43:07 PM PST by pabianice
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To: July 4th

You know what they say? If you've seen one, you've seen 'em both.


318 posted on 11/21/2006 5:10:06 PM PST by healy61
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To: motormouth

Classic!


319 posted on 11/21/2006 5:12:11 PM PST by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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To: chiefqc

One more double standard among many employed in the battle of the sexes. The double standard is the humans favorite standard.


320 posted on 11/21/2006 5:14:14 PM PST by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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