Poll: How Do You Feel About Breastfeeding On Aeroplanes?
Posted by Kate Tuttle at 5:00 PM on December 4, 2008
From Galley Gossip, a column on the Gadling travel blog, comes a poll about breastfeeding on aeroplanes. So far almost nobody has weighed in — I voted for "I do it all the time and don't care what anyone thinks" — so it's high time for some Strollerderby readers to share, if not their brazen, indiscreet breasts, then their opinions.
Maybe then we can get past the weirdness the author, a flight attendant, describes when she had to escort a flying mother into an aeroplane bathroom with her baby and toddler, because she was worried about breastfeeding in front of her seatmates. When I think of the times I've flown next to people doing absolutely foul things — from nose-picking to ear-cleaning to nail-clipping — I'm flummoxed than anyone would put nursing into a category requiring the cramped privacy of an airplane lav. So, Babble readers, tell us — and Galley Gossip — how you feel about it.
I’m all for breast feeding. It’s natural, best for the child and almost all women I’ve seen have adjusted their clothes so that nothing is seen and the baby’s face doesn’t have to be covered.
The amount of clothes out there to help with breastfeeding in public are just great!
The only thing I have a problem with are the women that flop a boob out for everyone to see, whack the baby on it and let it all hang out like a primitive ape. Usually they are looking around to see whose watching, and you can usually tell that they are of, uh…’lower socio economic status’ when they sit there confrontationally like that.