>Hi! I need your enlightened thoughts. At my breastfeeding store we are >having a World Breastfeeding day celebration and I sent out press releases. >They never worked before so I was very surprised and elated to hear that the >local CBS affiliate will be here to cover the event at 1pm tomorrow. Now, >on the teaser for the 5pm news tomorrow, they are saying "Yes, breastfeeding >is good but, is it proper to breastfeed in public?" Hi Linda Just to give you some moral support, I thought you might like to hear how our World Breastfeeding Day went. Our press releases about the presentation of Mother-friendly Workplace Awards elicited some response, and a great newspaper article on the previous Saturday, in a prominent place early in the paper rather than buried at the back, with a large photo showing the baby (of a mother in the paid workforce) about to latch on the A GREAT BIG NIPPLE!! No discreet breastfeeding stuff here. What a long way we've come in the 30 years since the newspapers wouldn't even print the word "breastfeeding". So don't give up; gains can be made. On the day itself, about a quarter of the dignitaries invited actually turned up, & one television channel arrived and covered the story beautifully, although in their local current affairs programme preceding the news rather than the 6 o'clock news itself. The guest speaker who has worked for ten years in a breast clinic spoke about what a wonderful organ the breast is; another speaker was a woman who has successfully combined breastfeeding and work and who spoke of how rewarding it had been; then the spokesmen from the two government departments who won the awards described in glowing terms the success of their mother-friendly workplace experiments. One has increased the size of the "carer's room" so that it can be used by parents with sick children, with computer terminals installed in the actual room so the carers can work from there, rather than at their usual workstations. It was GREAT! Lesley McBurney, Brisbane, Australia