In the same vein as the people who have posted about Party of Five, a show
I never have seen, I wanted to mention what I heard (I am usually quilting
or something while TV is on in the background) last night on ER.  4-5 mo
old child brought in, not eating.  Mother is breastfeeding.  Turns out the
older sister (age 6) had been giving hte baby tastes of HONEY from a spoon
and baby had botulism.

What I liked about the spot was not the dramatics to help the child but
rather the matter-of-fact nature of the very brief breastfeeding segment.
The doc (the hunk, George Clooney) COULD have been better about helping the
mother with her "engorgement", but otherwise, it was a nice,
normal-sounding exchange.  Sort of like, you are breastfeeding.  Oh.  Fine.
Next question.  Nothing out of the ordinary there.....

We need more such mentions to normalize this behavior, it seems to me...

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