What a refreshing article! It's nice to read something pro-breastfeeding for
a change. Everyone needs to read it. Thanks for letting us know about it.

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 07:48:16 -0400, Kathy & Paul Koch <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Here is the URL to today's (6/7/00) Washington Post column by Courtland
>Milloy titled "Breast Is Best --For All Our Babies."
>
>http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10980-2000Jun6.html
>
>The first few sentences are...
>
>"It is the picture of health: a mother breast-feeding her baby. Except that
>it's not as common as it should be--especially among black women. What is
>the problem?
>
>Several clues have emerged from research recently conducted by Inga
>Tate-Spurlock, a graduate student in applied anthropology at the University
>of Maryland. Among them:
>
>* Some mothers simply don't know how to get their infants to "latch on" to
>the breast, so the women get frustrated and give bottles to their babies
>instead.
>
>* Breast-feeding is no longer socially or culturally acceptable in the
black
>community, which somehow manages to tolerate other behaviors that are far
>less healthy.
>
>To help remedy the situation, Tate-Spurlock wants to produce a promotional
>video featuring black women who breast-feed, and she would like to include
>some influential female celebrities. Her idea comes on the heels of an
>urgent appeal by U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher that as many newborns
as
>possible be breast-fed."
>
>Kathy
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Kathy Koch, BSEd, IBCLC
>Great Mills, MD
>mailto:[log in to unmask]
>"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one
>determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger
>desires."- Marcelene Cox
>
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