On August 6th, at 1030, Shannon and I nursed Elsie and Jane Ellis into the Guiness Book of World Records. There were 25-30 nursing moms, dads and babies. As well as a silent auction and cupcakes! It was so nice to see other nursing mammas. Here's a link to the newspaper article from the Commercial Appeal:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/aug/01/moms-hope-to-set-breast-feeding-record/
Today Big Latch On announced the final count of actual nursing mothers was 4,123. The Big Latch On took place in 294 locations across the globe! Unfortunately we did not break the current world record which is 15,128 women in 295 sites across the Philippines on May 2, 2007. Even though we did not break the record, we did make people aware (with the help of the media) of how very natural and important breastfeeding is and that it should be appreciated (which I think was the whole point, right?).
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