Caption! Moms at the Nurse-In

Yahoo | 11/21/2006

[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)

[beezdotcom]

OK, Why is it obvious?

Like I said, apparently not to everyone.

[ozzymandus]

Get those damn babies out of the way and give us a look!

[Responsibility2nd]

...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.

The question was not what was wrong with breast-feeeding, but rather WTF is up with those who would sit right down on the floor in the middle of a crowded airport and do this?

[Past Your Eyes]

Agreed.

http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/

[najida]

Because boobs are for sex only!

That's why God made bottles and formula! So Daddies wouldn't have to share ;)

[Oberon]

Yeah. Real normal. Sure.

Well, believe as you like, it's your right to do so. God knows I cherish my right to be an idiot, and I certainly practice it often enough...

[Kirkwood]

Wow. Lady, you have one ugly baby.

[Responsibility2nd]

Perhaps 2 years, 11 months, 29 days.....

He looks like he weighs what? 40-50 lbs? Prolly been eating steaks for better than a year now.

lol

[najida]

No,
why is it obvious that if a child can talk, he can't BF anymore?

I don't understand (and I need to re-write come infant feeding chapters in my textbooks) ;)

[Oberon]

...WTF is up with those who would sit right down on the floor in the middle of a crowded airport and do this?

Well, if it were normal, it wouldn't be much of a protest, now would it?

[No Blue States]

My wife breast feeds our 4 month old, its completely natural and very easy to conceal. Quite convienient also.

Wth is wrong with people making a big deal out of breastfeeding?

I dont get it.

[spacecowboynj]

"You both call this exhibitionism. So could either of you point out any photo above where a mother has "flipped out" her breast?

You clearly didn't read the story. At the end (of course!) it notes that the protest started when a Delta stewardess asked a breastfeeding mother to cover her breast while she breastfed, not to stop breastfeeding.

"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."

O spare me: Sitting aboard a New York-bound plane three hours late departing, Gillette was handed a blanket by the female flight attendant but removed from the plane - along with her husband and child - when she refused it. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15833953/

Let's be clear. This is a bunch of whiners, not mothers. "No passengers had complained -- it was simply an officious stew...er, "flight attendant," who decided to throw his or her weight around."

Airlines (or any other business for that matter) do not need complaints in order to have corporate-wide standards.

" I nursed four babies, so I know it can be done discreetly. And it usually is."

And the airlines are fine with you breastfeeding so long as you do it discreetly. What part of this are you missing?

"(And btw, those four babies I nursed are all grown up now."

Blah blah blah...I'm totally FOR breastfeeding (my oldest was) I'm just against you or any other woman doing it indiscreetly. HELLO?

[najida]

It's bizarre how one of the most basic of familial and motherly behavior is treated with contempt.

Just bizarre.

[Red Boots]

What's wrong with a baby bottle full of formula? Those Swine Liberals make me ill.

You mean that if you breastfed your baby, and didn't want to use formula, then you're a SWINE LIBERAL ?

Who knew ?

I guess I missed that memo. Did it come with the baby ?

Or were we just supposed to know ?

[elc]

That is not how the story goes. She was in the last row of the plane, in the window seat, with her husband next to her.

She was nursing her child for takeoff (helps the ears so they don't scream) - being discreet. No other passenger complained, as they could not see her. It was the stewardess. She asked her to put a blanket over the baby's head.

How comfortable do you think it is for a baby to be under a blanket, on an already stuffy airplane?

Furthermore, she was on a plane at an airport in a state that has laws allowing breastfeeding.

The airline was wrong in kicking her off.

[bootless]

Back in the early 80s, I had a friend who worked the Delta counter at Bradley. I hope he's since retired!

[beezdotcom]

I read the orginal report and the mother was in the back etc.....with nothing showing.

Perhaps. So far, we've only heard her side.

If it is as she says, then Delta deserves to get spanked. After all, most breastfeeding women don't provoke this sort of alarm. It's either due to a strange flight attendant, or a strange mother. I've seen both in this world.

[Monterrosa-24]

"...With all the problems we've got in this country, why the heck would anyone want to pick on a perfectly natural, healthy, loving and maternal activity? I'm for the moms."

Yep, I'm with you. The real problem is that only about thirty percent of young mothers are in this area are chosing to breastfeed.

White "conservatives" should not get the blame for this. We should be advocates of strong healthy children and there is no debate that breastfeeding is better than formula-only feeding for the health of the child.

It is not conservatives but prudes who would say otherwise.

[elc]

World Health Organization recommends nursing for at least 2 years.