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
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Kathy Koch, BSEd, IBCLC
Great Mills, MD
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"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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