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) *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html To reach list owners: [log in to unmask] Mail all list management commands to: [log in to unmask] COMMANDS: 1. To temporarily stop your subscription write in the body of an email: set lactnet nomail 2. To start it again: set lactnet mail 3. To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet 4. To get a comprehensive list of rules and directions: get lactnet welcome