MAD MOMMIES PLAN TO NURSE IN PLAIN VIEW

[Guest guest]

I am posting this from another group I belong too...It's at 11 a.m.

 

Since I can't be there, I'm planning to send a letter.

 

Take care, Boriquita

 

Here's the press release going out regarding the nurse-in. Please

post it around to your various lists if you can. We need as many

mothers (nursing or not) to show up.

 

Thanks!

Ashley

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

MAD MOMMIES PLAN TO NURSE IN PLAIN VIEW

Lactating Women Staging A " Nurse-In " As A Response To Comments Made

on ABC's The View.

 

 

A Nurse-In is set to take place at 11 AM on Monday, 06 June 2005

outside of ABC's studios at 67th Street and Columbus Avenue in New

York City, where taping of the daytime talk show The View takes

place.

 

Lactating mothers and their supporters from the Greater New York

Metropolitan Area, including Long Island, Westchester County, New

Jersey and Pennsylvania will all be converging on ABC's studio to

protest comments made by cast members of The View. The

breastfeeding mothers are protesting the general anti-breastfeeding

attitude of the co-hosts of The View and comments made concerning

their opinions that breastfeeding and nursing in public is " gross

and disgusting " in nature. The mothers are also upset about the

celebratory nature of an announcement made concerning the first

bottle of formula given to the infant daughter of Elisabeth

Hasselbeck, the youngest and newest cast member who also gave birth

recently.

 

The lactivists will be promoting breastfeeding and emphasizing its

positive benefits for both mother and child, including lower rates

of breast cancer, reduced incidences of childhood obesity and

asthma, as well as stronger immune systems in breastfed infants and

toddlers.

 

The World Health Organization recommends formula only as a fourth

option for feeding infants, behind breast milk, expressed breast

milk and donor breast milk (from humans, not animals). Even formula

companies include disclaimers in their advertising that breast milk

is the best source of nutrition for infants. As well, the American

Academy of Pediatrics recommends that " pediatricians and parents

should be aware that exclusive breastfeeding is sufficient to

support optimal growth and development for approximately the first 6

months of life and provides continuing protection against diarrhea

and respiratory tract infection. 30,34,128,178–184 Breastfeeding

should be continued for at least the first year of life and beyond

for as long as mutually desired by mother and child.185

 

The Nurse In has been coordinated completely by volunteers.

 

For more information about this event or topic or to schedule

interviews with participants, please contact Ashley Clark by email

at

anniej83.