NewMexiKen finds that much of what I read on the internets, or elsewhere for that matter, is biased or only tells one side. Here’s another one of those stories that I find a little incredulous. Why would Delta do this if she was, as the story says, discreet? Am I just being naive?
I almost got kicked out of a Flower & Garden Show for nursing my son ten years ago, but that pales in comparison to actually getting kicked off an airplane–as happened recently to a mother on a Delta Airlines flight in Vermont.
She was sitting on an airplane nursing her child in a next-to-last row window seat with her husband beside her (in other words, she was in a discreet location), when a flight attendant offered her a choice: Cover herself and her child with a blanket, or get off the plane.
She declined the blanket, and was escorted off the plane. …
The woman, from Santa Fe, was feeding her 22-month-old daughter. Here’s a report from the Burlington Free Press.
In my experience, even a 13-month-old doesn’t like having a blanket over his/her head. I’m sure a 22-month-old would have thrown a terrible fit if covered. The mother probably knew exactly how loud her baby would get if covered.
I am a *very* discreet nurser, you can’t see skin at ALL, and yes, people do still get all weird about it… I have no doubt this story is real. And, discreet isn’t the point, the law says a mother has the right to bfeed her child anywhere she has a right to be, nothing about being discreet, using a blanket, etc. It totally leaves that up to the *mother* not those around her with their personal hangups. Imagine if a person from a fundamentalist Islamic faith could say “you’re offending me, cover up” if I were nursing discreetly but with my face uncovered… kwim?