Barbar Baylor is the 20/20 producer who will be doing the show on extended
breastfeeding.  She would like to talk with "mothers" who have faced
difficulties nursing an older child in the form of -- public harassment,
threats of having child taken away by child protective services, threats of
loss of custody in a divorce/custory case, disparagement by health care
professionals, etc.  At this point she wants to chat with people and gather
stories -- these are not necessarily people who will be going on the air.  I
just spent two hours talking to her, and she seems legitimate.  Her e-mail
address is:

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I told her that LactNet would come through with stories and anecdotes.
Please answer directly to her, and please let others know who might have
stories to tell.  She was unaware of the Oprah show on this topic until I
mentioned it, but when I described it to her she said that was NOT what they
were hoping to do.

Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Nutrition
Texas A&M University
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