Rachel,

How neat to see mother's milk credited for the good things, talents,
skills, etc that make
people newsworthy!!!  I think there is a strong, yet subtle message here
about the goodness
of breastfeeding and of mothering.  Thanks for sharing that.

Cindy Garrison
Canonsburg, PA

>
>
> Subject: mothers' milk in the media
> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 09:44:12 +0100
> From: Rachel Myr <[log in to unmask]>
>
> A curiosity from a breastfeeding culture:
> I subscribe to a Norwegian news monitoring service which notifies me daily of
> any mention of breastfeeding, breastmilk, and maternity leave, among other
> things.  It is spotty on foreign press, but good on Norwegian media.
> The problem is, there is an expression here to describe things you've known or
> done or believed in all your life, and it seems this expression is frequently
> used in the press (like 3-4 times daily in a country of under 4.5 million
> people).  At any rate, at least half of the alerts I get are from interviews
> with "newsworthy" people about why they are in the news, because whatever it is
> they do, be it sing hymns or run cross-country or be active in politics, is
> something they "got along with their mother's milk".
> So far I don't think a single alert of this kind has led me to a relevant news
> article about breastfeeding!
>
> Rachel Myr
> Kristiansand, Norway
>
>

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