Maria writes:


>Time Mag Cover consequence : TV Reality Show about extended 
>breastfeeding planned.  Can you say, "exploitation"?
>
>http://m.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/breast_in_show_UJ99xlSY22H5kBwI7kAZCI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Brooklyn
>
>Maria Parlapiano RN IBCLC
>Chatham, NJ


We had a TV programme called 'Extraordinary Breastfeeding' a few 
years ago (you can see clips on YouTube - don't read the comments :( 
- or you can see some of it here 
http://watchdocumentary.com/watch/extraordinary-breastfeeding-video_f880cc258.html

There was a huge amount of discussion at the time, and it still comes 
up occasionally in classes or on talkboards.

My feeling is that it actually raised the bar - long term, it made 
breastfeeding beyond infancy more visible and some people discovered 
it was not as 'mad' as they used to think.  The documentary itself 
was not very sensationalist - I mean there was no 'shock horror' 
voice over.  I find - and this is just an impression - that while the 
idea of the nursing four year old still wrinkles brows and purses 
lips and rolls eyes in a class, there is more acceptance of the 
nursing two year old, and a few years ago there would not have been 
that distinction.

That's not just down to that documentary, of course, but I do think 
attitudes are changing here, and that was part of the reason.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK


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