USA: LACTATING MOTHERS TAKE PART IN MASS BREAST FEEDING EVENT FOR GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS ENTRY
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USA: LACTATING MOTHERS TAKE PART IN MASS BREAST FEEDING EVENT FOR GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS ENTRY
- Title: USA: LACTATING MOTHERS TAKE PART IN MASS BREAST FEEDING EVENT FOR GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS ENTRY
- Date: 5th August 2002
- Summary: (U1)BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA UNITED STATES (AUGUST 3, 2002) (REUTERS) 1. SLV PARENTS WALKING WITH THEIR BABIES; MV MOTHERS WITH PUSHCHAIRS (2 SHOTS) 0.17 2. MV MOTHERS AND BABIES SIGNING UP FOR THE BREAST FEEDING RECORD; SCU PROGRAM FOR BREAST FEEDING RECORD; SCU BABY IN SUNGLASSES (3 SHOTS) 0.40 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) MICHELLE GONZALES SAYING: "I think to see this many women breast feeding in a public place and not being inhibited by it is going to help who bring bottles and formula with them instead of breast feeding their children, people who breast feed at home, or whatever." 0.52 4. SLV AUDITORIUM; MV WOMAN COUNTING DOWN THE CONTEST (2 SHOTS) 1.06 5. MV PAN/MV MOTHERS BREAST FEEDING (2 SHOTS) 1.22 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) NICKY GLOVER SAYING "Wonderful. Breast feeding is the best thing in the world to me. I think it helps my baby a whole lot and I'm willing to tell everybody about it." 1.32 7. SCU MOTHERS BREAST FEEDING (2 SHOTS) 1.49 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) OF HEAD COUNTING JUDGE DEBRA BUSTA MOORE SAYING "The rules are that the baby when the counters go through and look at each mother and baby, the baby needs to have his mouth on the breast as if he is nursing. Now if the baby happens to have fallen asleep on the breast, it still counts. If the baby is asleep in the mother's arms, and not on the breast, then he is not counted." 2.08 9. MV PAN MOTHERS BREAST FEEDING (2 SHOTS) 0.28 10. MV JUDGE "JUDGING" THE BREAST FEEDING 2.40 11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) WORLD RECORD ORGANIZER ELLEN SIRBU SAYING "My message is really to the medical establishment that we need to help women breast feed their babies if they're having problems because unfortunately, it's not as natural as we all think it is." 2.54 12. SCU MOTHERS BREAST FEEDING; MV BARE BREASTED WOMEN DANCING; SCU WOMAN BREAST FEEDING; SCU LIST OF BREAST FEEDERS (8 SHOTS) 3.26 13. (SOUNDBITE) (English) ELLEN SIRBU SAYING "Right now the count that we are going to give the Guinness Book of World Records is 1,128." 3.40 14. MV CHEERING CROWD; MV BARE BREASTED WOMEN AND OTHERS DANCING OUTSIDE (3 SHOTS) 3.57 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 20th August 2002 13:00
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- Location: BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES
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- Story Text: Berkeley, California, a city known for student
protests and liberal attitudes has a new claim to fame: mass
lactating capital of the world.
It may not rank with the Tour de France, the Super Bowl
or the World Cup, but breast-feeding en masse is certainly
gaining popularity.
On Saturday (August 3), 1,128 mums simultaneously nursed
their babies in a community theatre auditorium in Berkeley,
California.
That shattered the former world champion of mass
lactation, 536 Australian mums who nursed simultaneously in
a movie theatre in New South Wales last August 1.
"My message is really to the medical establishment that we
need to help women breast feed their babies if they're having
problems because unfortunately, it's not as natural as we all
think it is," said Ellen Sirbu, the world record organizer and
the director of the Berkeley Special Supplement Nutrition
Program for Women, Infants and Children.
Mothers sat in every other row with empty rows between
them so that volunteer checkers could count the successful
suckling.
"The rules are that the baby when the counters go through
and look at each mother baby, the baby needs to have his mouth
on the breast as if he is nursing," said head counting judge
Debra Busta Moore. "Now if the baby happens to have fallen
asleep on the breast, it still counts. If the baby is asleep
in the mother's arms, and not on the breast, then he is not
counted," she added.
All of the participants said it's not about the record or
competition but about supporting breast feeding, particularly
in light of recent studies confirming the many health benefits
for mother and child.
"I think to see this many women breast feeding in a public
place and not being inhibited by it is going to help who bring
bottles and formula with them instead of breast feeding their
children, people who breast feed at home, or whatever," said
Michelle Gonzalez, who breast fed her 8 month old, Luis
Manual, at the contest.
"Breast feeding is the best thing in the world to me,"
added Nicky Glover, who brought her 21 -month old Seleece to
the record breaking event. "I think it helps my baby a whole
lot and I'm willing to tell everybody about it."
In fact, the breastfeeding rate for mothers just out of
the hospital in Australia is about 95 percent, compared with
about 64 percent in the United States.
World Breastfeeding week began Thursday (August 1) and
Berkeley may not hold the record very long. At least two
other attempts are being held in the coming days-- one in
Orange County, California and one by a different Australian
group in Adelaide.
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