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[resqgeek]

Yesterday, nursing mothers staged "nurse-ins" in airports around the country in response to an incident last week in which a nursing mother was removed from a Delta Air Lines flight in Burlington, VT. Groups of mothers publicly nursed their babies in front of the Delta counters at many airports, in an effort to raise breast-feeding awareness. Delta Air Lines has issued as statement supporting a mother's right to breast feed and has indicated that the employee who removed the mother will be disciplined.

The medical evidence of the health benefits of breast feeding (for both the mother and the child) has led the World Health Organization to recommend breast feeding exclusively for at least the first six months, and many pediatricians agree. Breast feeding is entirely natural, and shouldn't be offensive or embarrassing to anyone. The sooner we all recognize that breast feeding is responsible parenting and stop giving these women grief, the better.

Article from today's Washington Post.

Comments

[elhamisabel.livejournal.com]

The following may sound offensive, I guess but I really don't mean it that way.
I think it's totally strange that breast feeding is an issue in the USA. Over here, nobody would even think of raising the issue. Nobody takes offence when a woman breast feeds. At least no official place and if ever anyone would privately say that he didn't want women to expose their breasts in public to feed their child, I think everybody would think he'd be mad.
It's sad that something like that raises any attention in a modern western country.

(The matter of breast feeding vs bottle feeding is an entirelky different matter, I agree that in context to that, women should made aware that they should rather use the former method.)

Yay for the women to do the protest!

[resqgeek]

I completely agree. I don't understand why people in this country find breast feeding to be offensive or embarrassing. We have some very weird hang-ups here...

[fsr44.livejournal.com]

I saw this story. Good for them! I couldn't get over the story of the flight attendant marching the nursing mother off the plane. That flight attendant needs a dope slap. It's beside the point, but the first thing I thought of when I heard the flight attendant offer the woman a blanket to "cover up" was the study about how infrequently airline blankets are cleaned and how full of germs and nastiness they are. Oh yeah right...give me the cloth of contagion and let me drape it over my babies head in order to protect you from the vision of two square inches of my breast.

[resqgeek]

>>give me the cloth of contagion and let me drape it over my babies head in order to protect you from the vision of two square inches of my breast<<

Eeewww! Now that would be disgusting!

[beckerbuns.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this. AND... That picture is great!