Thursday, May 04, 2006
Record Breaking Breast Feeding
More than 3,000 mothers in the Philippines have made a bid to break the Guinness World Record for simultaneous breast-feeding.
"What we're planning to do is incite awareness to put back the pride in breast-feeding and the respect we deserve because we commit ourselves to our children," said Dr Elvira Esguerra, director of the advocacy group, Children for Breast-feeding.
Organisers of Thursday's event said rates of breast-feeding had dropped dramatically in the Philippines. Only 16% of Filipina mothers breast-feed their children for the first six months of their lives, according to local health authorities.
