How to play the story:  I couldn't play it either, but it turns out my computer
was trying to play it on the windows media player, when it's designed to be
played by realplayer.  You can download realplayer for free from real.com.  I
played it by having the real player open and dragging the link on the sound
money page into the player. Here's the link:
<http://soundmoney.publicradio.org/programs/program_disp.php?start_date=05-08-2004>
I clicked on the word "breastfeeding", and while still holding down the mouse
button, dragged it into the open RealPlayer window.

Short piece, maybe 5 minutes, but I thought it captured the obstacles faced by
working and pumping moms pretty well.  It had a tone of "we need to do more to
support these women, in won't get better till employers are on board".  Also
mentioned the economic benefits to employers in terms of less sick time,
employee loyalty, etc. Talked about the choices to quit work in order to keep
breastfeeding, or choose to travel less, but how it's still hard.

I'll probably order a transcript if anyone wants a copy.

Kirsten


Quoting Sally Myer <[log in to unmask]>:

> On 5/8/04 NPR (National Public Radio-in the US) did a segment on their
> program "Sound Money" about working and breastfeeding.  The description on
> the NPR website reads:
> "Research has found that babies who are breastfed get fewer illnesses in
> childhood. Because of that, the government is trying to encourage women to
> breastfeed their infants for longer. But some moms find that trying to both
> work and nurse make that a difficult goal. Reporter Julia Barton has more"
> I missed hearing the segment--I've been unable to play the audio on my
> computer (operator error?) and don't want to pay for a transcript.  I'm
> curious if anyone heard it and roughly what did they say?
> Sally Myer RN, LLLL
> McCook NE
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