There's nothing wrong with breastfeeding, done as discretely as possible. ALSO, there are pumps and you can plan to have some milk pumped ahead on stand-by in case you get stuck in a situation. What if the mom has diabetes, or vertigo and passes out and is taken to the hospital or separated from the child? The child goes hungry indefinitely? What then? It's hard to accept that these moms don't plan ahead. I don't believe for one minute that some momma is going to whip out the breast and feed her infant in the middle of a home closing or corporate meeting. Why? Because she plans on being away and organizes the events around the feeding time, the best she can. You can plan for contingencies. Some of those kids in the picture are old enough to be drinking breast milk out of a sippy cup or bottle. I understand they were there to make a point but, it's not that effective, in my humble opinion.
If they are old enough to ask for it, they are too old for it.
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.
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.
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.)
Do you have kids?
Some nursing moms can't pump, though. I couldn't. So I guess I should just stay in purdah for a couple of years? Or decades, if I have a bunch of kids? Thanks, Mahmoud.
I breastfed my son for 12 months and never had a contingency plan. Of course, I was a stay at home mom at the time so where I was, so was he. My husband and I went out twice while I was nursing, once to his 10 year high school reunion and once to dinner. I expressed enough milk where the sitter had a couple of bottles in case she needed them. Of course, we didn't stay away too long because it can become kind of uncomfortable for the mom when the baby doesn't nurse.
In an emergency if Mom had to be separated from the baby then the baby would get weaned to a bottled formula. If it's a short term (a few hour emergency) situation then pedialyte could be used as a substitute. Formula could also be used but baby may not take it or it might upset the baby's' stomach.
The first 4 weeks I breastfed were difficult for me because I had puerperal fever but my idiot ob-gyn was treating me for a UTI. When it didn't clear up, my ob-gyn sent me to a urologist who wanted to immediately put me into the hospital. I refused because I knew I'd have to quite breast feeding. You should have heard the reaming out the urologist did to my ob-gyn! Anyway, the right antibiotic was finally prescribed and I quickly got well.
I don't believe for one minute that some momma is going to whip out the breast and feed her infant in the middle of a home closing or corporate meeting. Why? Because she plans on being away and organizes the events around the feeding time, the best she can.<<<<<<<<<
Amen. I don't understand why so many women are caught out at the shopping mall or in restaurants, etc. with no contingency plans or even a cloth for modesty purposes. Many on this site claim that lots of breastfed babies refuse to drink from a bottle under any circumstances. I'd hate to be in that situation as a mom who got sick or injured.
I agree. Thats what my daughter did.
Just curious, have you ever used a breast pump? Not as easy as it sounds.