Originally Posted by fastair

So how many RJs have (3) or more seats on a side for a child to need to climb over mother, nanny, plus an unknown 3rd person. At MOST, the child would climb over a total of (1) person, unless the mother put her child in the 1/2 of an inch between the fuselage and her seat. If she did that and both seats were occupied, then it would have been (2). Realisticly, an RJ seat with an 8 month pregnant person really doesn't have much room to have another child, who has to be at the minimum 7 months old (assuming the earliest she could conceive was the same day the previous child was born, which really isn't likely.). edit, over 23 months old...pretty much at the maximum allowed.

So let's just say that at most the kid would have had to climb over to gain aisle access is one person, and if they were in the lap, they would have been pretty far away from the seat back, (mom and fetus in between child and seat back) making access to the floor/footwell very easy.

Realistically, no climbing over is necessary, the drop for a sub 2 year old to the aisle is kinda big by climbing over, and infants have an innate fear of ledges http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_cliff (I studied this this famous experiment in college) more than likely one would simply slide down the legs while being protruded given the geometry of the situation and walk/crawl along the floor.
As to having to "overpower" (3) adults, no overpowering would be necessary, for 1, let alone 3. How well could mom have restrained a child in that limited space in front of her while being that far along? I'm betting a child go do it without using "multiple adult overpowering" force.

http://community.babycenter.com/post...while_pregnant