>My apologies for not alerting people to this earlier. During my recent trip >to Cincinnati (last week), three of the participants took the night off and >went to the downtown mall (a small one). While there, they were approached >by an interviewer with a large camera and nearly as large boom mike covered >with "fuzz", according to one of the women. They were asked about their >concerns: > >1 said she felt 24-hour discharges were not appropriate and did not help >breastfeeding mothers and babies > >1 said she felt mothers deserved more support for breastfeeding and that it >was ok to breastfeed in public without being thought to be breaking some >obscenity law > >1 said (after several takes) that breastfeeding women deserved more support >for continuing to do so after returning to work. > >All three were told they would be on the NBC Evening News. Look for it. In >my area (Chicago), this is the News show that is aired from 5:30-6PM. These >little snippet pieces usually come on in the last 5 minutes of the show. > >I would like to take credit for their thoughts--they were, after all, at a >breastfeeding conference--however, they deserve the credit for making their >concerns known without notice and should be applauded. I harbor the hope >that their views WILL be aired, but you never know. Since it relates to >breastfeeding, the producers may consider it "inappropriate." > >If one or more of these pieces is shown in your area, could you let the >rest of the LACTNET family know? > >As usual, KGA > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > %% Kathleen G. Auerbach, PhD, IBCLC %% > %% Lactation Services %% > %% Homewood, Illinois %% > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Kathleen G. Auerbach, PhD, IBCLC %% %% Lactation Services %% %% Homewood, Illinois %% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%