PFB Latest Headlines (3-02-09): Feeding While Driving

A nursing mother on the phone while driving! She still has one hand to
hold her hot coffee. I look at this as multi tasking to the NTH. Eyes
ahead drivers and watch for this woman. Liscence revoked.

I remember in driver's education they showed us a video of someone
holding a 30-pound mannequin baby in the front seat. Then they did a
car crash.

The person could NOT hold on to the baby. It went through the
windshield.



Because of that, they have laws regarding children in cars. The law
states that below a specific weight the child has to be in a child
seat.


Studies have specifically noted that, like I said above... you cannot
safely restrain a child with your arms in a crash.

Additionally... air bags hurt adults. I personally know someone who
lost an eye to one. Obviously they're going to hurt children and
infants even more severely.

So yes, before the child goes through the windshield it's neck might
be snapped.



Obviously this mother needs to get her priorities straightened out.
The safety of her child should come first... and breast feeding while
driving and talking on the phone... is not safe.


Is there any reason she couldn't have pulled over to feed? Other than
it being inconvenient?


And ... exactly what was she using to steer the car?

This isn't even a NIP (nursing in public) issue. This is just plain
old child endangerment. I am very strict about the proper usage of
child restraints in cars (remember my letter to Kia)? And this just
enrages me. Even if this woman was sitting in the back with someone
else driving she should never, EVER have been breastfeeding in a
moving vehicle. Unless you are Gumby, you just can't do so safely
without affecting someone's safety belts.
*Shakes head* I just can't get over some people.

God, I hope she gets fined and jail time. How stupid can one person
actually be?

It is my opinion that women that openly breast feed, with a breast or
both breasts visible for all to see, do it to garner attetion to
themselves. In my opinion they tend to be large, unattractive women
looking to be oogled.


Good Day

What color is the sky in your world?

Is this really what you believe?

N/t

I agree with you completely. There is no reason why a woman needs to
flash the world to feed her child. It is possible to be discreet while
feeding. Also, odds are if a woman was outside showing off her rack
with no baby attached, she'd get told to put a top on or possibly
arrested for indecent exposure. It can't go both ways - either let
ladies without kids in tow be bare-chested in public or make it a
crime for any woman to whip out her breasts for any reason in public,
including for feeding a baby.

Odds are, all the people who disagreed with you are women who are
guilty of exhibitionism...I mean breastfeeding. You are invalidating
their shamelessness. :)

Talk about Multi tasking. Driving, brest feeding her baby, and
talking on a cell phone all at the same time.

How Stupid. I am glad someone called 911 on her. She deserves
whatever they throw at her.

Pull over next time lady.

a similar incident happened here in Ohio about 5 years ago
(http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/2278904/detail.html) Worse
still, that one was on the TURNPIKE!

I don't get this at all - I understand that you need to feed your
child, but PULL OVER AND DO IT. It's not worth risking your child,
yourself or anyone else on the road to save those 10-15 minutes.

And this is not about "breastfeeding" rights - this is a matter of
safety. People shouldn't be talking on phones, eating, shaving,
dressing, putting on makeup or anything else while driving. Your
focus is not on the road where it should be and you can't physically
maintain multiple functions at once without running the risk of
injuring or worse, killing someone.

If your schedule is THAT tight that you cannot stop driving for a few
minutes to nurse your child, I think your issues are much bigger than
a ticket!

This woman should (1) have her children taken away and (2) be forcibly
sterilized.

She's obviously too stupid to raise children (but, unfortunately, not
too stupid to breed).

There is no question about this. She was in the wrong. The only thing
she was missing to make her point was a glass of whiskey too. Geeze.

Breastfeeding is probably less distracting than talking on a cell
phone. But holding the child in that position put it at risk of
serious injury.

And if she had gotten in an accident, and the chances of that
increased because she was talking on her cell phone while driving, the
airbag would've popped that poor kid's head off like a champagne
cork.

I have nothing against breastfeeding in public. But incidences like
this can cause people to have hang-ups about it.

like Ohioans.

I read this story in our Sunday paper, had to read it twice to make I
understood what the hell she was doing! This is totally unbelievable,
she deserves whatever the law throws at her. This baby she was feeding
was apparently close to 2 years old, so he/she was probably wedged
there under the steering wheel, I'd give her another fine for that.

A few weeks ago I saw a woman in the left turning lane smoking a cig
in 1 hand, cradling a phone on her shoulder and drinking coffee with
the other free hand while waiting to turn. This is getting out of
hand, no wonder everyones car insurance is sky high!

This is just dangerous, and it should be explicitly illegal.

This woman was stupid times three. 1) breastfeeding while driving
2)in front of the airbag, a sure way for major harm or death to the
infant in case of an accident and 3) talking on the cell phone. It's
women like this that make it harder for people to accept public
breastfeeding (which I am for!).

I don't care if you're breastfeeding, eating your breakfast, or
talking on a cellphone, if you're not concentrating 100% on your
driving, you're endangering yourself and everyone else on the road.

You're driving a half ton of metal at 100 km an hour, people, not
riding a bike!

OMG! I bet this women leaves her kids in the car to run into the store
for just a minute when it's 100 degrees out also! I'm sorry but they
should have dragged her happy butt off in handcuffs. Every time I hear
about parents endangering their children in stupid ways like this, I
SEE RED. I have followed cars and reported kids not in car seats,
infants left in cars while parents run inside for a minute, ect. but
the breastfeeding while driving is new to me. How stupid can you get.