This is a really old Elmo's world.  Probably 8-10, because I know I saw
it when my oldest was little.  It is very sad.  Maybe if it was done
now, it would be done differently.

Joylyn

Suzanne Berman, MD wrote:

>I was very saddened to see that the creators of Sesame Street, who
>historically have tried to encourage diversity even before PC was chic,
>aren't up to speed on bf.
>
>My 16 month old son and I were watching an "Elmo's World: Babies and
>Animals" DVD that someone had given us.  One of the segments (animated)
>showed that a baby's mouth has 3 positions: happy, crying, and happy/full,
>and the way to turn a baby's mouth from crying to happy/full is to stick a
>bottle in it (eeeek.) In several of the live shots, they showed babies and
>toddlers in strollers drinking from bottles.
>
>But here's the saddest part: then they showed a live "trip to the farm"
>sequence with baby animals.  I was thinking, "This will be ironic -- they'll
>show baby pigs, etc., suckling from the mama pig even though human babies
>aren't shown doing that."  But guess what?  They showed the children feeding
>baby pigs milk by bottle, and not a single sequence of the baby animals
>feeding from the mamas!
>
>I guess I'm really worried about what the next generation is going to think
>of bf if we are teaching them that not only is bottle feeding the norm for
>humans, but animals too!
>
>Suzanne Berman, MD FAAP
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