National "Nurse-in"???

[PlaneJoy1]

I know I am probably about to set off a debate, and that is really not my intention. I do apologize if this has already been discussed and I missed it.

Here is the article:

Delta Nurse-In Today at Hartsfield-Jackson
(WSB Radio) -- Twenty-four-old college student Valarie Roney doesn't have children, but she plans to park herself at a Hartsfield-Jackson Airport "nurse-in" just the same, just on principal.
Pregnant mother Ashley Clark, 26, of Calverton, N.Y., accompanied by her 2-year-old son, will do the same in New York.

Others irate over the ejection of a nursing mother from a Delta Air Lines commuter flight in Burlington plan similar actions today at more than a dozen airports around the country. Among them: New York, Baltimore, Detroit, Nashville, Tenn., Minneapolis, Las Vegas and Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Conn.

"This is not an isolated incident," said Roney, of Carrollton, Ga. "It's every day in every city, people walking up to women feeding their babies, saying 'You should go to the bathroom,' or 'You should put a blanket over her.' They wouldn't want to eat in a bathroom or eat lunch with a blanket over their heads."

Emily Gillette, 27, filed a complaint last week against Delta Air Lines and Freedom Airlines over the Oct. 13 incident at Burlington International Airport. In it, Gillette was breast-feeding daughter River, 1, aboard the New York-bound plane when a flight attendant tried to hand her a blanket and told her to cover up.

When Gillette balked, she and her husband were ordered off the plane before takeoff, triggering a complaint with the Vermont Human Rights Commission, a "nurse-in" last week at that airport and now the "national nurse-in," which is scheduled for 10 a.m. local time at 19 airports from Anchorage to Islip, N.Y.


Now, I am a breast-feeding proponent. I nursed both my children, and if I were to have any more I would nurse them as well. That being said, I was always discrete while breast-feeding in public. I think that is polite and it really took nothing away from my children or me.

I don't see a problem with a flight attendant asking someone to cover up when breast-feeding. We're not talking about smothering the kid, only being more discreet. I just don't get why the mother couldn't do that. Just because we breast-feed isn't an open license to flash our breasts in public.

What do you think?

 

[DawnCt1]

i nursed 3 out 4 ds's until the age of two, so i am very pro nursing. ds #4 had a cleft palate and could not nurse. having said that however, the flight attendant was wrong. she has been disciplined. delta has asserted that it is not their policy so, i don't understand a sit in or a nurse in since they are not there to change a policy. the policy is consistant with what they want.

 

[mtemm]

Sounds to me she was being discreet, it was the flight attendant who was at fault here. Trust me, my kids did not do blankets when I NIP. They ripped them off and made way more of a scene than if I just nursed them. Nothing showed...my shirt or the baby's head covered any "important" parts.

This woman was there nursing with her husband between her and the aisle. I can't imagine anyone getting much of a "show."

As for the Nurse-in, I think the moms just want to show support for this mother and to show their intolerance for what the flight attendant did.

 

[Hedy]

i nursed 3 out 4 ds's until the age of two, so i am very pro nursing. ds #4 had a cleft palate and could not nurse. having said that however, the flight attendant was wrong. she has been disciplined. delta has asserted that it is not their policy so, i don't understand a sit in or a nurse in since they are not there to change a policy. the policy is consistant with what they want.

Agreed. One dodo does not equal company policy.

 

[Bob Slydell]

Dare I ask what's involved with the "nurse-in", or how a woman with no children participates in one?

 

[DawnCt1]

Dare I ask what's involved with the "nurse-in", or how a woman with no children participates in one?

RENT A BABY???

 

[CharmCityGirl]

In other articles, it was stated that her husband was sitting on the aisle seat and they were in the next to last row. I think they were being very "discreet". The flight attendant was the one who acted inappropriately.

 

[Disney Doll]

An error on the part of one employee does not mean the entire company is at fault. My understanding is that Delta has disciplined the employee, their policy is that breastfeeding on a flight is fine...this seemed to be more of an individual's (the flight attendant) issue than a Delta airlines issue. What a "nurse-in" is going to do other than to continue the drama, I am not sure.

I would say that discreet breastfeeding is fine in public. And most nursing mothers are discreet. There are the rare nursing mothers who seem to thnk we all want to see their breast, which is not the case, but they are the exception, at least in my experience, not the rule.