{"id":1739,"date":"2006-11-19T10:43:11","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T10:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/19\/no_breastfeedin\/"},"modified":"2006-11-19T10:43:11","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T10:43:11","slug":"no_breastfeedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/19\/no_breastfeedin\/","title":{"rendered":"NO BREASTFEEDING BUT HELP YOURSELF TO THE BLOODY MARY MIX!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Images\"<\/a> OK. So it’s really true. Delta Airlines actually removed a nursing mother from a flight<\/a> for breast feeding her child. The mother, Emily Gillette, noted that she was in the second-to-last row, next to the window, and “her breast was not showing.” A flight attendant apparently offered her a blanket to cover what she believed was already covered enough and she declined. At that point the attendant asked that the family be removed from this three-house-late flight. If you’ve ever traveled with a toddler late at night on a delayed flight you know how hard it is to settle them down. Besides, from the reports I read, the decision to nurse was made partly because kids often cry on takeoff and landing because of the pressure changes. One of my kids used to get ear infections when we flew because the pressure pushed mucus around in his eustation tubes \u2013 until our pediatrician suggested we give him Benadryl before flights to dry him out. So I know it\u2019s an issue.<\/p>\n

More importantly though \u2013 what could possible have \u201coffended\u201d the flight attendant who asked for the removal? We know that gate agents comply with these requests as a matter of policy and we know this is one of those puddle jumper subcontractor airlines and maybe they aren\u2019t as worldly as larger ones but everyone has been a baby and she was in the back of the plane in a CORNER for heaven\u2019s sake. Lots of you have been very funny on your blogs about this but I\u2019m just not in a funny mood . It is a reflection of our larger policy toward children and it ain\u2019t good. Somehow everything comes before the kids. Even the sensibilities of the only person likely to even notice this going on \u2013 that flight attendant.<\/p>\n

While everyone is so censorious about nursing \u2013 I happened in the same weekend that I read this to fly from DC to Orlando and spend an hour and a half in the United Red Carpet Room \u2013 a very pleasant and useful luxury if one travels frequently. Here\u2019s the thing. There are apples and bananas and oranges and 3-4 kinds of juice and pretzels and TWIX bars and sometimes even cheese and crackers sitting around in there. So when grownups are hungry \u2013 or even when they\u2019re not \u2013 it\u2019s all available and it\u2019s all free (unless you count the annual feel for the Red Carpet Card.) I was going to write about how hard it is for me NOT to take a whole bunch of stuff in my tote bag \u2013 if only because it\u2019s free. This time I failed \u2013 partly because the stuff was kosher and I thought we might need it. Three tomato juices, 4 tiny pretzel bags, five mini-Twix bars and two granola bars. And over the weekend we used them all. But isn\u2019t it funny that I can get free food and carry it on in quantity while a 22 month old child three hours late for dinner can\u2019t even get what\u2019s naturally, organically, God-givenly hers? Somehow there\u2019s nothing funny about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK. So it’s really true. Delta Airlines actually removed a nursing mother from a flight for breast feeding her child. The mother, Emily Gillette, noted that she was in the second-to-last row, next to the window, and “her breast was not showing.” A flight attendant apparently offered her a blanket to cover what she believed … Continue reading NO BREASTFEEDING BUT HELP YOURSELF TO THE BLOODY MARY MIX!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,27,42,7,78],"tags":[2444,2071,2443,204,2074,1592],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-affairs","category-family","category-life","category-travel","tag-banned-nursing","tag-breast-feeding","tag-delta","tag-mother","tag-nursing-mother","tag-protest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-s3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}