Aaahhhh, schmeckt gut !
3,738 Mothers Attempt To Milk Breast-Feeding for All It Is Worth
More than 3,000 mothers in the Philippines have made a bid to break the Guinness World Record for simultaneous breast-feeding.
A total of 3,738 mothers simultaneously breast-fed their babies for at least a minute, said Manila mayor Lito Atienza.
The Manila event was organised to raise public awareness of breast-feeding.
The new claim on the record has yet to be confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records but Unicef Philippines spokesman Dale Rutstein told the French news agency AFP that he was “confident” it had been broken.
Unicef says breast-feeding can help curb malnutrition in children and boost their immune system. It is also far cheaper than bottle-feeding.
But the trivia tidbit we all needed to know:
The record is currently held by the City of Berkeley, California, where 1,135 mothers simultaneous breast-fed for a minute in August 2002.
The stuff is awful, don’t recommend it. Especially the day after mom had a cheese burger with extra onions and chili. 🙂
I’m sure Dvorak has pics of the one in Berkeley.
I lived in the Philippines and practically you could still see a mom breastfeeding inside a public transpo…. 🙂
The American concensus on public breast-feeding seems to be dismay which is funny because of the male fixation on breasts in this culture. Perhaps men are afraid of being turned on in public by a motherly feeding, and perhaps women are secretly jealous that the exposed breast looks better than hers and that she worries that attention would be focused away from her own covered breasts. What it boils down to is a society fixated on “number 1” masked by a value of ‘discreetness’ to protect others. It was, is, and will always be an American culture “looking out for number one”.
I say feed the little critters. Do not deny them nourishment just because others care about their own egos’ protection which in this case hurts an innocent hungry new-born.
Society, once again, proves its sickness.
Female breasts eeeeww… Give me moobs everytime *g*