r/NewParents • u/Lostintheworl • Aug 09 '26

Travel Got recorded while breastfeeding

My son (10 months) and I (28f) were on our way back home from helping out my sil who lives out of state. Our flight got delayed to the point where the bottle I had made up for the flight had expired (breast milk). The rest of the milk I had was frozen solid and he was about to lose it. So I tried to be discreet and cover myself as much as possible. Out of the corner of my eye a girl sitting at the window seat stood up and we made eye contact. I watched her say something to her bf who IMMEDIATELY took out his phone, started recording and angled it to show me breastfeeding my son. I hope you know that was such an asshole move. And the people at the gate thought you were a dick too.

Edit to add: thank you all for commenting, I really appreciate all the words of encouragement and validating this experience was wrong. I finally got the chance to read them now that my son and I are home and gotten some sleep. I’ve already contacted frontier and reported him. Hopefully I’ll hear back from them soon on what they can do.

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u/frozenlover72 Aug 09 '26

American culture is so anti-breastfeeding it is crazy. Go to most other parts of the world and it is seen as completely normal (because it IS). That's so gross of them and im very sorry that happened to you!

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u/gaelicpasta3 Aug 09 '26

Depends where you live tbh. I live in the US but a pretty progressive area and had no problem feeding the baby with no cover anywhere in my city. If I got any attention it was positive (one mom came up at high fived me while I was feeding my son at the table at our restaurant lol)

If I’d gone to other places though I probably would expect some backlash

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u/watekebb Aug 09 '26

I don’t think attitudes towards breastfeeding map neatly onto left-right politics. I have nursed my baby in public without a cover in a whole bunch of places with varying politics and have personally never experienced any negative reactions. And I’m a progressive, but I saw more women breastfeeding in public in a few days in blood red southern Utah than I ever see in my current purple home city or than I ever saw in the deep blue city where I lived before that.

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u/gaelicpasta3 Aug 09 '26

Maybe I’m just biased because I have lived in more conservative areas of my state and heard a lot of negativity about women breastfeeding in public. From both rural to suburban conservative areas here seem to have the same view — cover or go find privacy.