NO WAY! The early show this am

[sg784]

The Early show had a blurb about the current baby boom, and it had picture after picture, of mommas carrying babies in slings. it stopped for a good 30 sec on a mom nursing in a sling, and you could absolutely tell what she was doing. I was so impressed! I was glued to the tv I couldnt believe it!

We've made it to mainstream media! OMG!

[Mrs.Bufford]

Whoa! Thats awesome!

[rmzbm]

Cool! And there sure HAS been a baby boom, hu? EVERYONE'S pregnant! (Myself included. )

[maine06]

HORRAY!!!!!

[MamaFranklin]

Awe crap! We aren't counter culture anymore?!?! Now what do I do!?!?!

[Hanilulu]

Yeah! I watched the clip on their website, and saw two moms breastfeeding and one clearly getting ready to breastfeed. And I didn't notice any bottles!!

[Meiri]

Awe crap! We aren't counter culture anymore?!?! Now what do I do!?!?!

Keep doing what you've been doing. The point is to do right by our children, not to be counter-culture for the sake of being counter-culture. That is just giving control over one's decisions over to others/the mainstream.

[Breastfeeding Insomniac]

Thats great! I wish I has seen it.

[amandaleigh37]

sounds great!

[hookahgirl]

Originally Posted by Meiri

Keep doing what you've been doing. The point is to do right by our children, not to be counter-culture for the sake of being counter-culture. That is just giving control over one's decisions over to others/the mainstream.

Think she was joking
Awesome!

[MaryJaneLouise]

Here's the video

http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_vi...e=search_video

[Pynki]

It looked like they were in DC at a LLL conference. When was the last LLLI conference and where was it?

[momma2libby]

Originally Posted by Pynki

It looked like they were in DC at a LLL conference. When was the last LLLI conference and where was it?

Don't know but that was A LOT of breastfeeding/babywering moms in one place!

[songbh]

It looks to me like a nurse-in, not an LLLI Conference. In fact, I could swear I've seen this footage before.

Maybe this was shot at the big rally last summer for the federal legislation to protect breastfeeding rights in the workplace? Anyone know? (This is surely a good place to ask!)

ETA to answer your question -- the last LLLI Conference was July 2007 in Chicago. The one before that, in 2005, was in DC.

[songbh]

Originally Posted by songbh

... I could swear I've seen this footage before. ... Maybe this was shot at the big rally last summer for the federal legislation to protect breastfeeding rights in the workplace?

Yes, my hunch was correct. I googled a bit and turned up a photo on this blog that shows at least two of the same people wearing the same clothing at the May 10, 2007 Breastfeeding Promotion Act rally in Washington that appear in portions of the footage in the CBS News video clip linked in the OP.

Click on the 2nd photo from the top to enlarge. If you look closely you can see a baby wearing a lime-green-flowery-huge sunhat. That baby is in the news clip footage. I'm also 99% sure that the woman in a bright yellow shirt w/ dark green wrap is in both the blog photo of the rally and the news clip footage. I'm also sure the low wall in both is the same.

Plus, I recognized another momma in the clip; she posted photos from the rally on another board I visit. I won't link b/c it requires registration.

I'm not sure if I'm pleased that this very public example of baby-wearing and breastfeeding mommas in a large group made it into a mainstream news segment, or if I'm annoyed that CBS used the footage carefully cleansed of any of the very political content of its original context (a rally attended by Rep. Maloney calling for the passage of the Breastfeeding Promotion Act, which still languishes in committee.)

I am very clear that I am annoyed at CBS's almost exclusively use of images of WHITE babies on a story about the U.S.'s recent baby boom.