I was flying back from DIA after some business in Ft. Collins last week. I had an inside seat and the window seat next to me was occupied by a young lady and her wee baby.
We had no sooner leveled off at altitude and she proceeded to nurse the youngin'. Although polite and discreet, I had a hard time acting like nothing was going on.
When we finally touched down she thanked me for being such a gentleman. I remarked her child was rather well behaved...and awfully hungry.
She smiled and told me her pediatrician had told her that nursing would help with equalizing the pressure in the child's ears during flights.
I told her what a fool I've been my whole life for just chewing gum to get my ears to pop...:snarky:
I really do try to be nice...it just slips sometimes!
:-O 😛
And the rest of the story ? What was her reaction?
I've had plenty of "flight adventures" in my time but none like that.
Well maybe I might have wished I was the kid doing the nursing. 😀 (wink wink)
There was that one time flying back from Anchorage to Atlanta. There was only six passengers. I drank up all the beer. Didn't bother with the movie and just layed down. Couple hours later somewhere over Canada I woke up to pee. The stewardesses had made me a bed and had me all bundled up with blankets. How they managed that without waking me is still a mystery. I know they weren't spiking my drinks since I would go get my own. With so few on board they didn't care. It's not like they were coming by with the drink cart every so often. All on first-name basis by then so it was good. I'm plenty flirtatious by then. About 2 hours out from Chicago-O'Hare I decide to rack out some more. About 10 minutes out they wake me up for landing. Wish they would have left me alone. It was not good. Snowed in now for the next 4 hours in the meanwhile my finacee and a good friend are waiting for me in Atl. While snowed in at O'Hare I befriend an Army Ranger Capt. in full dress. We took turns saving our seats while the other went for more beers. 4 hours late I finally get to Atlanta-Hartsfield and quite blistered drunk. No one was a happy camper that morning. To make it worse, me and the fiancée need to pack up and leave asap to head back to IL for our wedding (a huge one). No doubt I slept most the entire way. Speed limits then were still 55 so that was a 9 or 10 hour boring trek.
Although I had a fantastic adventure, I don't think any one really appreciated it. Dam sure that the new wife wasn't happy to hear about the flight attendants bedding me like they did. I thought it was funny but she got real jealous about it - I suppose. In hindsight I guess I can see her point. I was 24 and she only 19.
> ....Well maybe I might have wished I was the kid doing the nursing. 😀 (wink wink)
You were probably dreaming about being the kid; that's why they had to cover you up...:-$
B-) :snarky:
"I told her what a fool I've been my whole life for just chewing gum to get my ears to pop..." That sounds like you put your mouth right in it. 🙁
As fanciful as that sounds, think I'll stick to chewing gum or Minties!
Wouldn't fancy being thrown out at 30000 feet.:-O
> I told her what a fool I've been my whole life for just chewing gum to get my ears to pop.
Okay, that's ready for print, right there. Someone needs to follow you around to collect this stuff. Are there any Boswells at all in Oklahoma?
My wife fed our children flying. Trick is to get them drinking on the way up and again on the way down.
Feeding on level flight is a lot less useful.
She had timing down to an art form for doing this and was always exasperated when flights were delayed which upset the timings.
Nearly 40 years ago
I spent a good bit of my work time flying around the country to various meetings. One day as I was attempting to "go with the flow" boarding a fair-sized plane I noticed that the entire line of passengers had slowed tremendously for no known reason. Eventually I reached the plane door, turned right and started to head down the center aisle when I noted the most likely cause of the slow-moving, mainly male, weekday passengers. A young mother seated on the aisle in the very first row was feeding her darling child. Fully exposed. And, fully is a very apt adjective in this case.
Women that know what they're doing
are completely covered and most people don't even realize they're nursing when sitting next to them and look directly at them. My wife once nursed one of our kids while the Parish Priest was visiting, she changed sides and he didn't even realize what she was doing.
It is a natural thing, but a lady knows how to conduct herself in public and does not create a spectacle. There's no need for that.
SWMBO just took spledeus jr overseas. She breastfed to equalize pressures even though she was slightly uncomfortable doing it next to an older gentleman... That chapter of the lad's life should be over with soon... I may have to repossess...
