Comments on: Share Your Breastfeeding Tales

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The study in question did find, however, that breastfed children tend to have higher IQs. The people running the study just felt that this was because women who breastfeed tend to have higher IQs than those that don’t, and their children are more likely to inherit that tendency. So, breastfeeding is both a smart choice to make, and a choice made by smart people.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Dear Delta Mom
I am a lactation consultant who recently had a similar experience with my sons sixth grade teacher. I was helping in class and sat in the back of the room to listen to the lecture. I was nursing and the only person who could see me was the student teacher. The next week I was told that I could not breastfeed in class. The principal said even if I were discreet the thought that the children would know I was breastfeeding would be disturbing to her and them. When this was happening to me a lactation consultant it was like having an out of body experience. I was very disappointed in my sons school. I wrote to the superintendent I am waiting for a response. You are not alone I know how you feel. Please know that there are people that are fighting for your rights as well as the rights of every nursing mom. This is blatent discrimination. This is just a symptom of what is wrong with this countries perception of breastfeeding. Delta Mom you are not alone. I do fly on vacation with my family and I won’t be flying Delta Airlines.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I agree breastfeeding is great and of course people should be allowed to do it. But I’m a mom and I have to say I don’t always want to watch it happen. We need to be respectful of others rights too. All the mom had to do was cover up with a blanket. Big deal. Why not just do it? As beautiful as breastfeeding is, we have to be honest and admit many people don’t want to watch it unfold.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

When my five-year-old son was four months old, I nursed him on a flight from Indianapolis to Washington National (now called “Reagan” airport, but I refuse to call it that, especially after what Reagan did to the air traffic controllers). Anyway, breastfeeding my baby was beneficial in so many ways: not only did it soothe him, nourish him, and help him to sleep, but it also alleviated the “ear-popping” syndrome associated with altitude change.
Nobody wants to sit near a crying baby on a long flight. Is it really less desirable to have a happy, breastfeeding child on board?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I am still breastfeeding my 6 month old and have to travel regularly for work. The new TSA regulations about liquids on flights are a huge inconvenience to working moms because TSA only allows breastmilk to be brought on board if a woman has her baby with her.

This leaves women the choice of dumping their milk or checking it, which is a huge pain. If you check the breastpump with the milk, it can damage the breastpump, so you wind up having to carry the breastpump but check the milk.

I think women should be allowed to bring their milk on board even without their babies if they can prove they are a breastfeeding mom, for example by bringing their child’s birth certificate or just showing their breast pump.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Perhaps some people have more cooperative babies than my three sons were, but there was no way I could keep a burp cloth or blanket on my children for more than a fleeting moment. They would instantly bat it down and cry at the blinder-effect. I found that there is always a way to be discrete without forcing a child to breathe recycled hot air under a blanket.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

There are too many important issues facing mothers today and siding with this woman is not where Momsrising needs to be focusing their attention. Yes, mothers should be allowed to breastfeed in public without worrying about being harassed, but it is also our job as humans to be considerate of the feelings of others. She could have covered herself with a blanket and none of this would have been an issue. There are a lot of healthy, normal functions our bodies perform that we don’t do in front of others or will do discreetly if someone expresses their discomfort. Let’s not jump on the hysteria bandwagon and use some commonsense or we are going to have a tougher time getting respect from others on the issues that matter.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I’m so sorry that this mother had to go through this embarrassment. While my son was 6months old, we flew from Minnesota to be with my husband at his graduate school in Oregon. I was very stressed out with trying to plan for every possible issue that might come up while traveling alone with an infant. One thing that I never thought twice about was breastfeeding my son on an airplane. I had a layover during our trip, so I sat next to different people on each flight. I carried a small receiving blanket with me, but I could never cover myself completely due to my son’s movements and the tight quarters of airplane travel. I know that a few people around me knew what I was doing, but there were hundreds of people on the flight. Most people couldn’t have cared less, and were probably happy that my son was quiet.

I wonder how many people on this woman’s flight were inconvenienced, not because of her breastfeeding, but because the airline took that opportunity to delay taking off to attempt to control something that most passengers didn’t even know was going on.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Since I wasn’t there to see it, I can’t say if the mother was overexposed or not. Evidently, the flight attendant thought so. I breastfed my son for two years on airplanes, in attorneys’ offices and at sushi bars and never received a single negative comment. Woe to the person who would have tried! I was always careful to not expose my breast while breastfeeding, which really isn’t difficult, even without a blanket. I don’t get why this is even an issue. It is entirely possible to breastfeed without most people even realizing what you’re doing. Delta didn’t tell her not to breastfeed her baby — they told her to do it more discreetly, even offering a solution. Kicking her off the plane is too extreme, but why did she refuse the blanket? There is nothing wrong with breasts, but our culture is not nudist, so it shouldn’t be surprising that some people are going to be uncomfortable with exposure of breasts in public. Especially when it’s usually unnecessary.