On Nightline, Salma Hayek cross-nurses a baby in Sierra Leone.

I just couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this story on Nightline.* 

Salma Hayek, UNICEF spokesperson, was in Sierra Leone to promote a tetanus vaccine program in a country where one in five children die before the age of five.  21% of those deaths are due to tetanus.  Another reason for the high mortality rate is lack of breastfeeding. 

In one scene, Salma nurses a little baby (her own is now over a year).  There is a close enough view that I could count swallows.  She then tells the story of her great grandmother in Mexico nursing the baby of a stranger who didn't have enough milk. 

I'm blown away that this was on network tv.

*Quick warning that it shows a very sad scene of a baby dying from a tetanus infection. The breastfeeding part of the story occurs later in the piece.

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