View Poll Results: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
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Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
May 6th 2011, 11:52 pm
#256
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
I breastfed too, but would always express should I have to go out somewhere. Not that I had a problem with breastfeeding outside or anything, I just found it more convenient to have the bottle there and ready, instead of all the faffing around that I felt caused me a little anxiety, having the expressed milk made it easier for me. 
May 7th 2011, 12:21 am
#257
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
Some of my friends with kids use a blanket and go outside or to the toilet when in a restaurant. That's acceptable. There's no way around it - it is repulsive when you are out for a nice dinner. Especially when you have a creamy soup in front of you. I've asked to be moved once when a woman near by started to feed a child that looked about two. There were no more tables and she was told it wasn't appropriate and stopped. A low murmur of applause went around the restaurant.
May 7th 2011, 1:50 am
#258
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
May 7th 2011, 2:01 am
#259
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
Jeez some comments seem to come from the dark ages.
Anyone would think all women slop a tit out at the drop of a hat anywhere, anytime to shove in a baby's mouth, from some of the brainless comments on this thread.
May 7th 2011, 2:11 am
#260
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
No it's not. It's totally unacceptable. Would you go and eat your dinner in the toilet? Would you go outside to eat if someone complained they didn't like the way you eat? Would you eat with a towel over your head? Ridiculous statement to make. Perhaps mothers with breast feeding children should be expected to stay home until the children are of an age where they can sit at the table and eat with a knife and fork?
Jeez some comments seem to come from the dark ages.
Anyone would think all women slop a tit out at the drop of a hat anywhere, anytime to shove in a baby's mouth, from some of the brainless comments on this thread.
Jeez some comments seem to come from the dark ages.
Anyone would think all women slop a tit out at the drop of a hat anywhere, anytime to shove in a baby's mouth, from some of the brainless comments on this thread.
May 7th 2011, 2:17 am
#261
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
No I mean brainless, as in ill thought out, irrational. I have no problem with people not liking breast feeding. I do have a problem with some of the suggestions made as to what breastfeeding mothers should do.
May 7th 2011, 2:32 am
#262
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
We may disagree with that opinion, but it doesn’t mean we are right or wrong, it simply means we don’t agree.
Everyone sees life from their perspective, and feels justified in their actions and thoughts. As long as it is within the legal framework of the land then they are entitled to hold an opinion, and to hold it without fear of insult or ridicule.
Do we challenge opinions and views with throwaway insults, or by reasoned and balanced argument backed by factual evidence?
May 7th 2011, 2:37 am
#263
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
I only commented that friends have taken the baby to the toilet to feed (I meant a nice sofa'd area with plants and aromatherapy oils burning , in a fancy restaurant). I imagine they did that in order to find privacy. I wasn't suggesting the baby was dunked in a filthy toilet!!!!
Last edited by Turban Explorer; May 7th 2011 at 2:43 am.
May 7th 2011, 2:42 am
#264
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
Would you eat your food in the toilet!!! That's disgusting behaviour on your part and the restaurants. When my first baby was about a week old I went to Michael's Restaurant in Brisbane which is a pretty up market restaurant and the baby needed feeding, I went and asked restaurant staff if there was anywhere to feed her and they said at the table would be fine or they could set up a comfy spot in the piano bar for me. I opted for the piano bar to get away from bank talk for a while (business dinner) but was nice to know that the restaurant was fine with it at the table.
May 7th 2011, 2:52 am
#265
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
But you're the one with the hangup if breast feeding turns you off your food - you're the one that should leave. You constantly complain about Australia being decades behind the UK and your attitude towards breast feeding clearly belongs in the last century.
May 7th 2011, 2:53 am
#266
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May 7th 2011, 3:09 am
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
Having seen that I have revised my opinion and fully support breast feeding.
May 7th 2011, 3:10 am
#270
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Re: Should children be allowed in airline Lounges?
I think if a restaurant advertised itself as 'we welcome breast feeding at the table' it would be pretty bloody empty. If not wanting to watch it in restaurants is a 'hang up' then I'm certainly not alone.