This is a press release I received a couple of days ago…(I’m toooooooo busy! Yikes!) Wish I was in NY for the nurse-in.

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@hotmail.com.