Gross Baby Stories
Two stories here, back to back from NBC4, my local TV news station. First up is the lady that had her baby in the car on the beltway. When I first read the headline, I figured, “No wonder, with the traffic around here.” But no, this was at 2 AM and the lady was trying to get… somewhere.
BETHESDA, Md. — A woman gave birth to a baby boy early Monday morning on the Capital Beltway in Maryland.
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services officials said the event happened just before 2 a.m. Units were dispatched for a report of a woman in labor just before River Road on the Beltway’s inner loop. But the baby apparently couldn’t wait and units arrived after the woman gave birth.
Officials said the woman and her newborn son are both listed in good condition at a local hospital.
Anyone want a used car? I’m betting you don’t see afterbirth listed on a Carmax Used Vehicle report. Next up is a story about how a bunch of nursing women are really angry with Delta for kicking a nursing woman off of an airplane.
Now there are calls for a “nurse-in.”
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Vermont woman is organizing a national “nurse-in” to protest an airline’s treatment of a breast-feeding passenger.
The nursing mother was removed from a Freedom Airlines plane last month at Vermont’s Burlington International Airport after refusing a flight attendant’s request to cover her baby with a blanket while nursing.
Gillette said the flight she was on was delayed for three hours, but appeared to be preparing for takeoff on Oct. 13 from Burlington International Airport when she decided to breast-feed her child. She said she was being discreet and no part of her breast was showing. She and her husband said that a Freedom Airlines flight attendant told Gillette that she was offended, and then she and her husband were asked to leave the plane.
A similar protest, in which mothers sat on the floor near the Delta Airlines counter, breast-fed their babies and held signs, took place at the Burlington International Airport last week.
Who wants to be around a bunch of angry nursing women? If I worked for the airlines, I would call in sick that day. Or maybe I would be there on hand with a jar of nipple cream and a shammy.
