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)
If mammory serves me right, they'd better be careful or they might get busted.
One word: formula.
This isn't about breast feeding, which Delta is clearly fine with as long as it's covered up, it's about a bunch of emotionally adolescent adults trying to overcompensate for their own mothers' shortcomings. I bet the vast majority of them are in their thirties and don't know the first thing about mothering and that these kids are going to be utterly spoiled growing up. See, it's all about THEM THEM THEM...not the other person's poor six year old kid who has as seat next to them and has to endure seeing an engorged 35 year old breast sticking in his or her face because some idiot can't be bothered to cover it.
Is that kid in the bottom-most pictue 15? I think he may have a beard.
Well, I'll say the main problem for me would be my breastfeeding baby WILL NOT take the bottle from me. He freaks out, flails wildly & screams & cries. Takes it from Dad like a champ (he can smell the "good stuff" when I hold him). Clearly, if he were hungry enough, he'd eventually tire out and take it from me, after who knows how long (I've gone up to a half hour) of screaming. Given that, most passengers on a plane probably would prefer a little boobage being seen.
The officials should have nippled this in the bud.
Got milk?
Does the TSA allow a nursing mother to bring enough pumped milk with her onto the plane to last for a long flight? IIRC, they don't. They allow a small amount, but not enough to last 6 or 7 hours. (Or, in this case, enough to give the child anything more than a light snack.)
Ashley Hernandez breast-feeds her son, Marcus, 2, as airline passengers go by in the Nashville International Airport terminal Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006. A group of mothers, fathers, and children gathered at the airport to take part in a national demonstration to protest the ejection of a nursing mother from a commuter flight Oct. 13, and to show support for the right to nurse in public places. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/061121/480/ac2b0dc865ac4f23ae28493c350d4abf
"I gave many thanks when the woman next to me started breastfeeding her Air Raid Siren on my flight last night."
You owe me a keyboard!
"Udder nonsense."
Good one!
End Lactose Intolerance Now!!!
"I am an attention whore! Look at me!!!"
"Alexa Ross, 2 1/2"
The kid was looking for a pair of Mounds.
You both call this exhibitionism. So could either of you point out any photo above where a mother has "flipped out" her breast?
If you bother to read the threads following the original incident, you'll see that the article states that
(a) the mother was nursing discreetly,
(b) no flesh was exposed and
(c) the baby's father was sitting between the mother and the aisle, also helping to screen off mother and child.
No passengers had complained -- it was simply an officious stew...er, "flight attendant," who decided to throw his or her weight around.
I nursed four babies, so I know it can be done discreetly. And it usually is.
(And btw, those four babies I nursed are all grown up now. All are highly productive and patriotic conservative citizens. I never had a single problem with any of them getting into drugs or alcohol or tattoos or piercings or eating disorders or any other adolescent crises. Did my nursing them have anything to do with their eventual success? I have no doubt it did.)
What's wrong with a baby bottle full of formula? Those Swine Liberals make me ill.
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