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Funny/Mad baby feeding story from plane, had to share

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foreverondiet · 13/03/2011 21:46

Recently flew from London to Israel with family including DS2, aged 11 months....

Around an hour into the flight this woman starts making a fuss. It turns out she got on the plane late, and there wasn't space for her hand luggage in the overhead locker so it had to go in the hold.... she had an 8 week old baby and the formula and bottles were in the hold. Its a 4 hour flight and the baby was already crying.

I obviously felt dreadful for her and was able to offer her a sealed carton of aptamil (suitable from birth etc) as I had bought 3 in the airport, and DS2 would only drink one on the flight.

But no, she didn't want it was it wasn't kosher enough (aptamil is listed as kosher on the London beth din list, but this woman was ultra orthodox so would only want milk that was fully supervised... although all Rabbis even ultra orthodox ones are lenient when it comes to children under 3, even more so when they are babies, even more so in an emergency...)

Anyway she was making huge fuss, demanding air steward got her bag from hold or could otherwise magic up some super kosher formula.

This went on for ages (an hour... meanwhile the baby was still crying).... Air steward less sympathetic by now (due to my offer of formula). And totally confused about how it could be kosher but not kosher enough.

The mad thing was that it turned out that she was a breastfeeding mother who had brought formula as she hadn't wanted to feed on the plane (I think for modesty reasons but it wasn't really clear as her english wasn't fluent)... the woman behind me who told me this also said that she had brought babyrice to add to the bottle so the baby would sleep better in the flight...

Eventually thought (maybe after 2 hours) she realised the plane wasn't going to do emergency landing on her behalf and so she breastfed her baby.....

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onepieceoflollipop · 13/03/2011 21:49

Poor baby. Sad

Possibly if I had been there I may have asked the steward if she could have been taken to a more "private" area in case this made her feel more comfortable to breast feed.

foreverondiet · 13/03/2011 21:58

onepeiceoflollipop it was an easyjet flight and pretty much full so no private areas at all, even toilets queued out the whole flight.

When I offered the formula, of course I had no idea she was breastfeeding, that transpired later. I just heard the commotion (several rows in front) about wasn't it dreadful that she didn't have formula for the baby.

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RitaMorgan · 13/03/2011 23:12

I agree, poor baby! No way would I have been able to listen to my 8 week old cry for food when I could have just fed him.

chipmonkey · 13/03/2011 23:28

My mother ff me from birth as my parents would be returning from America to Ireland when I was 6 weeks old and Mum didn't want to bf me on the plane.Sad She bfed all my siblings but not me.
This was in the sixties though.

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