Breastfeeding: It's the Word on the Street Campaign

Recently I came across a post from Code Name: Mama about breastfeeding on Sesame Street in 1977! The beautiful video showed a mom explaining to Big Bird why breastfeeding is normal, healthy, and natural - talk about awesome. Pretty soon I came across a second video featuring Maria breastfeeding and showing a little girl how!






With all the recent controversy surrounding Sesame Street, it was awesome to see Sesame Street has a history of promoting breastfeeding and nursing in public as well as engaging kids on what breastfeeding is and why it's important. And we want to see more of it! When kids grow up seeing breastfeeding as normal, everyone benefits.

So can you tell me how to get breastfeeding to Sesame Street?


Join our Breastfeeding on the Street campaign:


Write to Sesame Street and let them know you want to see breastfeeding back on Sesame Street.  Carla from Life as a Reader has a great form letter to get you started.


Tweet: @SesameStreet Breastfeeding: it's the word on the (Sesame) Street http://bit.ly/8YMUoM #BFINGSTREET ##sesamestreet


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