As I was snowed in by the blizzard, I started watching the Discovery Health Live Births show on yesterday. I was taping it in case there was something of interest later. It was really amazing. It was like a busman's holiday as I work in a maternity unit. (If you never heard that expression, it is a bus driver who rides the bus on his day off!)I ended up watching most of it and stayed up until 2 am. The snow was lovely, over two feet in upstate NY, and I will shovel today. It was quite favorable to breastfeeding, although didn't show much directly, almost every mother interviewed after midnight, who had given birth had already nursed her baby several times. The show's host, Mary Alice Williams, gave a message that two thirds of new moms choose breastfeeding in the US, and one third are still nursing at six months. (This could be better but at least it is up from the past.) She talked about the benefits of breastfeeding for a whole segment. Almost every mother mentioned when asked how she was feeling after her birth, that her baby nursed, it was part of their natural response to how they were feeling. Even Dr. Jen Berman shared her elective cesarean of a few weeks ago, some births were taped, about 18 births occurred on the ten hour show at four hospitals around the US, both vaginal and a few emergency and planned cesarean occurred. Dr. Berman seemed sorry she had chosen a cesarean thinking it would save her the stress incontinence she had experienced after her vaginal birth, but found the cesarean very much more painful right now. She was actually breastfeeding on the show. Just thought I would share the media watch while I was checking the school closing for my 15 year old son, it is closed. Back to bed for awhile before facing the snow shoveling. Warm regards after the blizzard of the century, (the century is still young!) Hoping that the world conflict is over soon like the snowstorm, but not that optomistic, Ellen Bane Mahony, RN, MS, LCCE, IBCLC [log in to unmask] *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html