Dawn,
  What great stories!  Thanks for sharing and making our day.

Naomi

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> Date:    Fri, 4 Feb 2011 18:38:20 -0500
> From:    Dawn Kersula <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Nursing mothers feed the world
>
> It's been a busy year for breastfeeding in Brattleboro, Vermont.
>
> At the beginning of the year, Sarah Lavigne, a talented local  
> photographer,
> www.lavignephoto.com/ was thrown off Facebook because of a photo she  
> posted
> of herself, breastfeeding her son. ("I don't even think I was showing
> anything" she notes.) That led to a Bring Back Sarah Lavigne Group.
>
> Two weeks ago, I posted about Michelle Stephens's editorial in the
> Brattleboro Rerformer, lamenting Sarah's situation and discussing her
> experiences, good and bad, nursing her daughter Elsa around town. 
> (BTW, that
> editorial had over 1,000 hits and was the most read story in that  
> issue,
> probably leading to....)
>
> This week the Reformer ran a news story about Sarah's plight. She was
> reinstated on Facebook....
>
> Today Chandra Broussard, a local parent educator, featured  
> breastfeeding
> moms on her local (low power) radio program. Six nursing moms and  
> seven
> nurslings (one set of twins) came and nursed on the radio! Chandra  
> and I
> discussed the normalcy of breastfeeding.
>
> Chandra's preschool daughter sang a song she wrote at age two about  
> a little
> black sheep who loves to nurse. And a darling mom and daughter,  
> Carol and
> Zoe, sang a song they wrote together, to the tune of "My Bonny lives  
> over
> the Ocean." The chorus ran, "Nursing mothers, nursing mothers, nursing
> mothers feed the world, the world" and the last chorus ended, "Nursing
> mothers rule the world!"
>
> My heart is very full.
>
> Dawn Kersula in Brattleboro, Vermont
> (just south of Putney where the barns are collapsing from the weight  
> of the
> snow)

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Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
Executive Director
Mothers' Milk Bank of New England

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617-527-6263
www.milkbankne.org
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