Samira wrote:
Yeah, I'd want to use their nasty scratchy blanket too.
Not to mention filthy...those things don't get washed between passengers.
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On the other hand, the kid was nearly two years old. How long does one typically breast feed?
World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding until at least six months, then nursing supplemented with solids until at least 2 years.
American Academy of Pediatrics and American Association of Family Physicians both recommend exclusive breastfeeding until at least six months, and supplemented with solids until over a year "until both mother and baby are ready to wean."
The "exclusive to 6 months" is getting encouragement to be nudges back to "6-9 months." Some babies really aren't ready for solids by 6 months.
The median age for complete weaning in most of the world is--get this--4.2 years.
I plan to nurse exclusively until between 6-9 months, and then supplemented with solids until Ambrya 2.0 seems ready to wean. And I will NOT put a blanket over his/her head until the person making the request of me goes and tries to eat their meal and breath normally with a blanket covering their head. And certainly not a disgusting, filthy airline blanket.
As for this absurd debacle on the plane, I think this (posted to a breastfeeding community of which I'm a part) says it all:
Fertility Friend's breastfeeding forum wrote:
I think it's funny that people are so concerned about women nursing in public, but there are skirts so short that you can practically see the woman's labia, pants so low that I'm seeing butt crack everywhere and shirts cut so low that I've seen a bit of areola on occassion. Where are the angry posts and people getting kicked off of planes for things like this? It's gross to me that our society is so anti-woman and anti-child, but okay with the display of a woman's body if it's with the sole purpose of turning a man on.