I don’t mind breastfeeding mothers in public. Some people get up in arms about it, and some mothers get really righteous about it. I really don’t care. Until now. Everything about this pisses me off, but most of all this entitled attitude this woman has- “I know all about safety. I’m not concerned about that. I’m just trying to feed my child.”
This woman is dangerous. She deserves more than a fine. She should lose her baby with a mind like that.
The woman’s attitude is not: “My baby’s hungry, so I have to feed him no matter once”; it’s “My time is so important, that I can’t be bothered to pull over to the side of the road in order to feed my baby.”
I only watched a little of the video. Breastfeeding AND talking on her cell while driving? Hasn’t she heard of pulling over to the side of the road?
Breastfeeding and talking on the cell phone while driving. That’s talent.
She loves her baby, eh? Apparently not enough to minimize the risk of a car accident with him in the car.
Nah, she’s just a proficient multitasker.
:rolleyes:
Have you tried pulling over while breastfeeding and talking on the phone? You can only do so many things at a time! (j/k)
Thats nice that you aren’t concerned for your safety, or that of your child, or anyone else’s safety, but you still take the time to feed the baby whenever it wants.
What’s the bet she was on the phone to the La Leche League with concerns about how difficult it is to maintain breastfeeding in this modern day and age…
The baby will be nice and full and well-fed when the steering wheel passes through his head. What a freakin’ idiot he has for a mother.
Gosh people, we only have two hands.
One to support the baby, one to dial the phone - of course she can’t pull over because she hasn’t got a hand on the steering wheel. :smack: :smack: :smack:
With him in the car, not in the proper safety harness, and between a (presumably) fully grown adult and Air Bag.
And no doubt the people I met in LLL would support her…
This woman is a terrible mother. I usually don’t say things like that (because terrible is such a subjective thing), but she lacks critical thinking skills, practical knowledge and --well, do I have to go on?
Let us hope that the public court o’ shame has done its work. I wonder what her husband/partner has to say about her behavior.
Really? Because I’ve been to plenty of LLL meetings over the years and I can’t think of anyone that would think it was a good idea to do what this lady did. Rather the opposite, actually, because LLL meeting attendees tend to be carseat Nazis as well as all the other variety of Nazis they are.
It is probably wrong of me that the only thing I could think on first hearing this story was, “Wow! Driving AND talking on the cell AND feeding the baby! When I was nursing a newborn, it took me two hands and a nursing pillow just to get the kid to stay on the damn breast!”
Not that I think this sort of thing should be encouraged, of course. (Er, I mean the driving/breastfeeding thing. Not getting kids to stay on the damn breast. You know what I mean.)
They unfortunately shut off the cameras before she could light her cigarette.
She also had an open beer in the cupholder.
But she has Important Places to get to!
I know **eleanorigby **was making a joke, but I couldn’t help thinking, “Yeah, I was wondering how long it would take for someone to take a crack at LLL.”
And you are right, while LLL has no official position on car seats, I have observed a strong overlap between LLL members and those who strongly advocate keeping kids rear-facing till the seat instructions say you can’t anymore - which is probably about 3yo for most kids, and my group just had a two-part enrichment meeting with a car seat safety expert.
This isn’t about breastfeeding, it’s about idiocy.
Hey, if she could talk on her cell while conceiving the baby, then…
Meh, I got nothin’.
To be completely honest with you, I don’t think that they even HAD cellphones back when I was breastfeeding. And it never occurred to me to try to nurse my daughter while I was driving. She was firmly in a back seat car seat. So, if I wanted to nurse her, I’d have had to pull over ANYWAY to get her out of the car seat. 
And while I’m on the subject, one time not long after she was born, I was driving, she was in the car seat, my purse was on the front passenger seat. I had to stop very suddenly, and my purse went flying. I looked at the purse, still shaking, and thinking that could have been my daughter flying around in the car. From then on, I was a car seat Nazi. She did fuss about having to stay in that seat, but I was pretty firm on this issue. And later when I went riding around with other parents, I’d see the kid not in a car seat, and I was told that he wouldn’t accept being strapped in. My thoughts (which I mostly kept to myself) were that the parent is bigger than the child, and can easily start the habit of putting the kid in the seat and simply NOT ALLOWING the child to roam freely in the car. Not only is it a safety issue in the case of sudden stops and accidents, it keeps the kid from getting into mischief. </soapbox> Now, I do admit that on long road trips that my husband would pull over, I’d get in the back seat, and he’d start driving again while I nursed her. But once I was done, he pulled over again, I’d change her and put her right back in the car seat, and climb into the front seat again. So I was bad in that I did have her out of the car seat for about 15 minutes or so while the car was moving.