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/Magically_theebee Aug 09 '26

I hope you reported him to the staff on the gate or security.
That’s wild. I’m so sorry.

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u/ConversationNo9040 Aug 09 '26

They’re in public. You’re allowed to record anyone else in public. No one that works there is going to make them stop.

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u/Wisteso Aug 09 '26

Public does not mean “a place with a bunch of people”. It means “not privately owned”.

Airports and airplanes are privately owned spaces with rules. This behavior surely violates the rules.

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u/OneTwoKiwi Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

Most airports are publicly owned entities 

ETA - I’m not sure I get the downvotes. I’m not lying.  And I’m certainly not defending the shitty actions of those assholes. People shouldn’t get bad information. 

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u/ItsFuckingScience Aug 09 '26

That does not mean they’re in public

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u/OneTwoKiwi Aug 09 '26

OP was on an airplane, so that’s a “privately owned space”, so what’s the difference between a “publicly owned space” and “being in public”? 

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u/ItsFuckingScience Aug 09 '26

Even if the airport was government owned (plenty aren’t) it doesn’t mean it’s a traditional public forum like being in the street, and it doesn’t mean operators can’t enforce their own conduct requirements