Breastfeeding has come up a number of times on the NPR show Tell Me More recently. Enough times that I'm at higher risk of crashing my car while listening to the radio between the hours of 9 and 10 am.
I've been wondering why the host, Michel Martin, has brought up the topic so frequently. And of course I wondered if she'd breastfeed herself. Though it's really none of my business. Then I read her comment to this post:
"I also loved breastfeeding...and with twins trust me there WAS no breastfeeding in public. can you imagine?! I'd have had to pull a blanket over my whole head. but it was hard. sometime I'll tell you the story of when I first got back to work and was sent on a reporting trip. I think I have forgiven the relevant parties for what happened next, but the fact that my heart rate is accelerating as I write this tells me: maybe not. here's a short version: nine hours, ice storm, small plane. and that's all I'll say about it. For now."
Any moms of twins who nursed and also pumped at work totally gets it.
Thanks to an email from a faithful reader, I learned that yesterday I missed a segment on why African American moms breastfeed at rates lower than other ethnic groups.
One of the women Michel Martin interviewed is Kathi Barber, whom I interviewed for a podcast interview on African American moms and breastfeeding. For a while it was the most popular download from our free iTunes store. Kathi is the author of The Black Woman's Guide to Breastfeeding, and the founder of the African American Breastfeeding Alliance. I finally got to meet Kathi this fall at an advisory board meeting for the breast cancer/breastmilk study I'm helping to recruit for. She's awesome.
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