Thursday, February 12, 2009

Have you seen this?



OR SEE IT HERE.

I thought it was really touching and sweet. I would love to have an opportunity to help starving children in some way. I saw this entire segment on TV, and Salma was actually trying to teach the women of Africa that it is good and healthy to breastfeed your children as long as they need it.

In Africa, the doctors encourage women to nurse for the first 2 years of their child's life, at least. However, African men try to limit breastfeeding because for some crazy reason, they do not believe in having sex with a woman who is still breastfeeding. So they want their wives to breastfeed for just a short time, which is ridiculous because there is not enough food for these children. I think breastfeeding is awesome. Plus, its FREE!! I think it was great that Salma made that point, and is trying to help these women and children.

3 comments:

stef j. said...

that's so crazy ... i just watched that last night too!! i think it's awesome! and i LOVE LOVE LOVE nursing...

Matti said...

Wow, that's really interesting. I've never heard that. I always just assumed people in Africa breastfeed their kids till they are 8.

Matti said...

Shucks didn't get to watch it. It said video had been removed. I'll have to try and look it up on youtube.