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)
I'm trying hard not to laugh out loud at work... :)
Nothing...it's real normal to nurse at least a little up to age 3 or even older. Nothing wrong with it, regardless of conventional wisdom as expressed by a generation of doctors.
I was at a "home school graduation" at a church a couple years ago. We were sitting toward the back. A little boy came down the aisle from the front to where his father was sitting near us and said, just as clear and as matter-of-fact as could be, "Dad, I need another diaper." LMAO!!
That kid much older then 2.
Personally, I think the seven is a bit creepy, but children are often weaned at 3 or 4. When Hannah left Samuel with Eli in the Temple, he wasn't six months old -- he was probably 3 or 4.
No one would complain, because,
Well, THAT is what God made Boobs for ;) ;) Letting children feed on them is just disgusting!! ;)
LMAO. You get my vote for "best".
Kristie Levesque of Groton nurses her daughter, Na'omi Milligan, while her husband, Micah Milligan, left, and son Javen Lesvesque, look on 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.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/061121/480/6570f49dda6643509c3e7b8ed343fd66
Yeah. Real normal. Sure.
Mommy needs to let go.
OK,
Why is it obvious?
It was very normal until the advent of the bottle....now it's considered bizarre.
How sad.
1. Mom is kind of cute.
2. Marcus is a Big Boy and needs to start eating solid food.
3. Breastfeeding is a normal, natural aspect of human life, and is therefore completely appropriate in public. Of course, not all normal and natural human activities are appropriately conducted in public: bathroom functions, for example, are kept private because of the noise, smell, and health hazards associated with urine and feces; sexual intercourse is kept private (among other reasons) to preserve the intimacy between partners. There is however no sanitary, odor, or noise hazard associated with the act of suckling a child, and no need for special intimacy.
Summary: I cannot imagine how anyone could find public breastfeeding offensive, shameful, or inappropriate. It's like watching a cat nurse her kittens. Big deal.
The breastfeeding is nowhere near as offensive as her ridiculous abuse of an apostrophe to muck up an otherwise nice name.
I breast fed both of my children without making a scene, it is polite to cover yourself and baby with a light blanket.
I read the orginal report and the mother was in the back etc.....with nothing showing.
The attendant is the one who said 'they' were being offended.
Sheesh.
I don't see what all the fuss is about, really. You'd think it was Janet Jackson at the Super Bowl or something.
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