I just watched a Night Line special on ABC about tetanus in Sierra Leone.
They started talking about how many girls are married and having their first
babies at 13, how their husbands discourage breastfeeding because they think
they cannot have relations with a nursing mother, and how this practice is
impacting their infant mortality rate and childhood malnutrition.  They then
talked about how important it is to encourage breastfeeding for at least 2
years.  Salma Hayek is helping to immunize the women and children against
tetanus and she talked about nursing her 1 year old.  Then she started
nursing--bare breasted, on TV--an African baby whose mother didn't have
enough milk.  She talked about how her great grandmother had done the same
for a mother whose milk had dried up and how she hoped her daughter would be
as generous when she grew up.  WOW!  Salma's my new hero and the reporter,
Cynthia McFadden, who did the story!  Here's the link to the story but not
the video:
<http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=6804291
<http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=6804291&page=1> &page=1>
Linda Anderegg, BSN, RNC, IBCLC in Chicago, looking forward to the coming
heat wave (50s)

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