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Cicho
02-03-2009, 06:35
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25122973-5013016,00.html
~Temet Nosce~
02-03-2009, 07:26
Couldn't she have just pulled over? :confused: Yeah fair enough the baby needed a feed, but sheesh..
Angroc
02-03-2009, 09:40
I remember hearing about this a while ago (or a similar case), pretty dumb!

Actually, I think it was another American woman holding her new born bub while driving, talking on the phone and trying to pay a toll. Needless to say the toll operator dobbed her in. Very dangerous!
Mamalicious
02-03-2009, 09:41
Hungry baby vs dead baby....:rolleyes:

Pull over, you twit!!! :dizzy:
sam's mum
02-03-2009, 09:53
like it isn't dangerous enough just talking on the phone while driving...

I wouldn't even bf as a passenger, let alone as a driver.
em1984
02-03-2009, 10:04
i saw a women breastfeeding her baby in the back seat while her partner was driving, about 2 weeks before i had noah. I couldnt believe it i was in shock. She just picked it up out of the capsule and started feeding it, and he was driving like a loony as well on a busy highway. It actually looked like they were just coming home from hospy, it was a rental car too. I just couldnt believe what i was seeing, and that a couple would put their new little baby in danger like that! I would rather put up with noah's screaming for 15 minutes that risk that, or just pull over and feed him. People just lead too busy lives these days that they obviously cant stop for 15 minutes...
squiglet
03-03-2009, 06:32
I want to know how she managed to do it:confused::confused:
How are you driving along and getting a baby out of a carseat? I could never reach personaly....
Then saying you get over that problem:p
How do you attach the baby with just one hand, seat belt and steering wheel in the way, then keep the baby there?
Fuchsia!
03-03-2009, 07:50
Hungry baby vs dead baby....:rolleyes:

Pull over, you twit!!! :dizzy:

:iagree: what an idiot!!
Tam-I-Am
03-03-2009, 08:07
I hate how the media turn this into a negative breastfeeding story - when it actually has very little to do with breastfeeding, and very much to do with idiocy and a woman's inability to appropriately prioritise tasks and do them at appropriate times. *sigh*
goldtoe
03-03-2009, 10:31
I hate how the media turn this into a negative breastfeeding story -
Relax, I didn't see that anywhere.
Most trivia news reports fall into one of a few categories, and this is the "tsk tsk, how awful, i would never do that" category. It makes us feel good about ourselves, reading about idiots like these. Sad but true.
I really think the general public response would be the same as in this forum.
But what do people think about feeding in cars generally?

Is it OK in the back seat on a long rural freeway journey (much lower risk) ?
What about in the back of a taxi, or a bus, where there is no infant restraint other than mum's arms anyway?
francemumma
03-03-2009, 10:49
..I dont know why the lady didnt just pull over! We are WAY to busy in our lives...I'd rather just take the time to smell the roses!!! Thats what life is all about! :)

And bf in long road trips...we took our DS on a 12 hour road trip to grand parents and my home town..it took 12 hours because we took the time to stop and feed..so not worth it to try bf while df drives! Just because a road may have less traffic...doesnt stop the unpredictable wild life!!
Fuchsia!
03-03-2009, 10:53
But what do people think about feeding in cars generally?

Is it OK in the back seat on a long rural freeway journey (much lower risk) ?
What about in the back of a taxi, or a bus, where there is no infant restraint other than mum's arms anyway?

God no, a risk is a risk, in the country it only takes a kangaroo to jump out in front of a car, or another car to drive into you.

If you need to feed a baby. Pull over and feed the baby.

Under no circumstance is it ok to take a baby out of its capsule while the car is moving, unless of course its a matter of life and death situation which im sure you could still pull over.
Jakois
03-03-2009, 11:05
God no, a risk is a risk, in the country it only takes a kangaroo to jump out in front of a car, or another car to drive into you.

If you need to feed a baby. Pull over and feed the baby.

Under no circumstance is it ok to take a baby out of its capsule while the car is moving, unless of course its a matter of life and death situation which im sure you could still pull over.

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~Temet Nosce~
03-03-2009, 11:19
Hmm yeah I don't really see how it was turned into a negative breastfeeding story to be honest.. it would have been the same if a mother had bottle fed her baby while driving, the point of the story from what I have seen is just plain endangerment to the baby for doing anything like that while driving.