Comments on: Shocking In-Flight Breastfeeding Incident

By: Happy World Breastfeeding Week

Happy World Breastfeeding Week — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:36:06 +0000

[...] Remember, this year saw a woman kicked off an airplane for feeding her hungry baby. [...]

By: kbaggott

kbaggott — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:01:56 +0000

I got a note from Delta this morning that made it clear it was a Freedom Airlines flight attendant. Freedom operated the flight in question for Delta.

They made it clear that they see this incident as a learning experience.

I have had interesting/surprised comments from women in the 60s and older while nursing in public, but nothing so troubling. A great number of women were brainwashed during the 1950s and they’re only now — when it’s timt to raise their grandchildren, coming out of it.

By: Jill (far_gone)

Jill (far_gone) — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:05:06 +0000

I’m always shocked by stories of people who have trouble NIPping (nursing in public. I nursed everywhere, blatantly, without covers and nursing tops and a zillion nursing implements you had to purchase. I never once had a problem or a cross look. I always felt like the (mainly american) women who insisted on flapping blankets about were actually drawing more attention to what was going on than just discreetly hiking up your t-shirt, unsnapping your bravado and getting on with it.

As you said, the airplane is a great place to nurse – easy feeding for the baby, keeps them quiet on the flight, helps their ears, and generally you’re kind of in your own little pod so no one can really see you unless they’re ogling.

In fact, I remember nursing practically straight through a trans-Atlantic flight, keeping the baby quiet!

I just can’t understand what about that would be a problem. Shame on Delta, or at least shame on that particular flight attendant.