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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: Responsibility2nd

I was hoping the Sweedish Bikini Team would show up for this event.


341 posted on 11/21/2006 8:44:53 PM PST by G Larry (Only strict constructionists on the Supreme Court!)
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To: elc

I didn't say she wasn't being discreet. Go read. If she was not complying with a flight crew member, I don't care if she was picking her nose and refused a kleenex. That's illegal. That's announced as illegal. She handled it correctly. She stood her ground and left the flight on her terms. She most certainly had a blanket in her possession, wouldn't you think? She didn't want to use it, the baby wouldn't let her, or whatever happened. The bottom line is,,,,I never said she wasn't I'm all for discretion. My posts are screaming a call for discretion. I am not disturbed by any mom nursing her infant who is hungry or needs to be comforted, esp if there is nothing else to be done. I have no issue with it. My whole point is discretion. If the airlines treated this woman unfairly, then that is wrong. I already posted that.

Geez, I am so amazed at how the call to be discrete pi$$e$ off so many people!


342 posted on 11/21/2006 8:45:43 PM PST by austinaero
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To: austinaero
if a flight attendant says to stand on your head, you, by law, are obligated to comply

Oh, reaaallllly...? You have to do anything a flight attendant tells you to do, or you're breaking the law? One really hopes you're not really going to try to defend that twaddle. Then again, the entertainment potential leads one to hope that you will.....

343 posted on 11/21/2006 8:45:54 PM PST by r9etb
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To: austinaero
My posts are screaming a call for discretion.

Except in your own case, obviously.

344 posted on 11/21/2006 8:47:10 PM PST by r9etb
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To: American Quilter
"Exhibitionists. Do they urinate in public, too? That's also a natural function, after all."

I work at an airport as well, and I can promise you, my airport director would have kicked them to the curb.
345 posted on 11/21/2006 8:51:32 PM PST by DesScorp (.)
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To: reagan_fanatic
"...and a titter ran through the crowd..."

346 posted on 11/21/2006 8:52:57 PM PST by ErnBatavia (recent nightmare: Googled up "Helen Thomas nude"....)
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To: r9etb

It's not my rule. The flight crew can make the call, you bet. It's clear, it's advertised and if I don't like how I'm treated, I'll deal with it like a grown up. Apparently your personal sensibilities can't fathom handling that exchange in such a manner. Doesn't bother me.

I really could care less about your opinion of me. I don't make the rules for how the public is to behave while flying.

I'm glad you are humored. That totally suits me fine. Maybe you should spend some time doing a little research.

Oh, and twaddle..? Impressive word. Is that from your high-end dictionary or is it a word that happens to be in your every day vocabulary? It's really persuasive,,,,,,


347 posted on 11/21/2006 8:56:00 PM PST by austinaero
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To: austinaero

If you think that is bad, one day at a friend's house, I had the great misfortune of meeting a female friend-of-my-friend who breast fed her five year old daughter. Her son was eight at the time. She openly talked about breast feeding her son until he was almost six. She ended up leaving before long, saying she had to go home to "feed" her daughter. I was at a complete loss for words and avoided any conversation with her.


348 posted on 11/21/2006 8:59:07 PM PST by CountryBumpkin
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To: austinaero
From your little rant, I gather that you've chosen not to defend your previous claim that people are legally bound to follow any and all flight attendant demands.

Smart move, but it's really too bad ... I was looking forward to it.

349 posted on 11/21/2006 9:00:49 PM PST by r9etb
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To: r9etb

Quit posting to me. I fly often and anyone hear can repeat the assertion. Can I quote the law chapter and verse, no way.

Wipe the drool off your face and pick another argument somewhere else. You are salivating for no reason. What a sad life you must have, purposefully trying to be an a$$ just for the fun of it. Hey, you're good at it.


350 posted on 11/21/2006 9:04:27 PM PST by austinaero
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To: r9etb
"Seeing as the pilot of the plane recognized the flight attendant's error as soon as she made it"

Where did the pilot say he "recognized the flight attendant's error as soon as she made it"?

"But then, we have a whole thread of your stupid posts that testify to that fact"

Awwww...sticks and stones cupcake!
351 posted on 11/21/2006 9:08:28 PM PST by spacecowboynj
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To: austinaero

hear = here,,,it's late.


352 posted on 11/21/2006 9:09:44 PM PST by austinaero
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To: Responsibility2nd
I'm receiving Section 8, WIC Checks, my other kid is on Ritalin and getting SSI checks, and now I'm getting my picture in the paper. Thank You working America!
353 posted on 11/21/2006 9:19:26 PM PST by jackieaxe (Unsourced reporting is not reporting but a lie or a manipulation)
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To: spacecowboynj
Hey r9, why am I forever doing your homework for you?

Skellon also said that the captain of the flight apologized to the passenger and her family and "immediately requested that they be re-boarded for their flight," which the family refused.

Contacted Friday, Gillette said that is untrue. She said the airline "never offered" her to get back on the plane.

"I would have jumped at the opportunity," Gillette said.


http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061117/NEWS/61117009/-1/NEWS05

Uh oh r9!!! This represents a dilemma for you. Who are you going to believe, the airline or the unruly couple?? Hmmmmmm?????
354 posted on 11/21/2006 9:21:16 PM PST by spacecowboynj
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To: I_like_good_things_too
I had the same problem. I could not feed my kid a bottle. Someone else had to. Also, the only way I could pump breast milk was if I was nursing on the other breast. I had "issues" with let down on a machine. LOL

Don't you love how some people think breastfeeding is such a simple choice? Obviously, it's technically less complicated that fixing bottles. However maintaining the supply, nursing schedules, nipple confusion, etc is quite different from bottle feeding.

Anyone can bottle feed. Nursing is a full time committment!

355 posted on 11/21/2006 10:21:58 PM PST by TNdandelion
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To: shhrubbery!
You both call this exhibitionism. So could either of you point out any photo above where a mother has "flipped out" her breast?THANK YOU!!

I'm convinced some people hear the word "breastfeeding" and their anus puckers up in hysterical shock and outrage.

356 posted on 11/21/2006 10:29:25 PM PST by TNdandelion
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To: bannie

True, but experience says that most children (babies even) will grab the blanket and it fling it about. A blanket is really only useful when the baby is a newborn or asleep.


357 posted on 11/21/2006 10:39:13 PM PST by TNdandelion
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To: austinaero

You can't make a baby latch on to a nipple if they don't want it (hunger/soothing). Human nipples aren't as rigid as plastic bottle nipples and they can't be forced into the mouth the same way.


358 posted on 11/21/2006 10:44:00 PM PST by TNdandelion
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To: austinaero

I guess we were both pretty mad yesterday.
We dont have to agree.
Have a nice day, sorry to have lost my temper.


359 posted on 11/22/2006 4:06:36 AM PST by No Blue States
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To: austinaero

"I don't gawk, but if I wanted to, a breast feeding mom has not a complaint about it if she wants to be in the public. I have the RIGHT to gawk if I want to. That is not the point. You can't demand decency if you are not willing to be respectful to others around you. I have been there in that position. You are a man so when have you ever breastfed a baby? You have no credibility in lecturing me. How dare I? Easily I dare. You want YOUR standards honored but to hell with everyone else when the call is out for common courtesy. I did not once in any post, ever, say, that women show their breasts too much or show off their breasts, or expose themselves unreasonably. Read, instead of lecturing, you jerk."

Good heavens. A good proctologist could remove that corncob.


360 posted on 11/22/2006 5:54:12 AM PST by tuffydoodle (Shut up voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.)
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