Comments on: Breastfeeding Trivia: Got Whale Milk?

By: 10 Unique Posts on Breastfeeding and Other Trivia

10 Unique Posts on Breastfeeding and Other Trivia — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:46:18 +0000

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By: Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor

Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:50:39 +0000

Hi Melissa! There’s a email link hidden next to my name in the sidebar, but you can always just email me directly at angela at b5media dot com. Thanks so much for leaving a comment to share that story with me. The mother did such a great interview, even demonstrating how she nurses her son!!

It’s so surprising that these incidents keep happening. I suppose it shouldn’t be, but I keep hoping things will improve.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:08:35 +0000

Just another fellow breastfeeding mother who enjoys reading your blog!

The struggle continues here in Austin – the DISNEY Store in Round Rock told a local mother she couldn’t breastfeed there. I’ve attached the link. They said it was a liability! Then she was asked to feed in the toilet room as it was the outlet’s ‘designated facility’.

I would have e-mailed you the information, but couldn’t find an address. Here’s the news link:
http://www.myfoxaustin.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=CF914B5BC71A0D0375D04B36BEE05628?contentId=4426958&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

By: Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor

Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:15:47 +0000

Eilat, that is terrible! I hope you do write to the museum (and let me know if you get a response!)

The magazine showed a graphic of a milk carton (a cardboard cow’s milk carton) — not the best graphic but still better than baby bottles!!

By: Eilat

Eilat — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:32:29 +0000

Hey! I haven’t received my latest copy (or maybe we subscribe to Little Kids).
On a related note, I was at the Monterey aquarium a few months ago and they had a display about a baby gray whale and some amazing facts about how much milk it drinks. I was shocked that for comparison they use the number of BABY BOTTLES that milk would fill. They show a human infant DRINKING FROM A BOTTLE and they describe the amount of milk that the mammal drinks IN TERMS OF BOTTLES!

“A baby gray whale drinks enough milk to fill over 2,000 bottles a day.”

Can you believe it?
I took some photos and meant to write them a letter. My issue with the display is not that is doesn’t promote breastfeeding. That isn’t their job as an aquarium. However, as a scientific institution I expected them to present biology correctly. The display is in a section designed for small children and basically says that while gray whales drink milk from their mothers (there is even a cartoon showing the baby whale swimming next to its mother, presumably nursing), human babies drink from bottles.

Did the National Geographic Magazine talk about baby bottles at all?