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1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 min. 7 sec.) ; 346814598 bytes |
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Join TV presenter and blogger, Cherry Healey as she explores the world of boobs, bottles, babies and breast milk with her usual refreshing honesty and personal insights while tackling the topical issue, 'is breast best?'The World Health Organisation advises that all mothers should breastfeed their children for at least the first 6 months after birth, but Cherry herself found the experience painful and traumatic and eventually gave up. Over a year later she is still plagued by feelings of guilt for not trying harder and now is on a mission to find out how other mums feel... is she the only one?Cherry meets Jess, a teen mum who never even considered breastfeeding and has formula fed all the way with no qualms at all. She also interviews a group of 'Lactivists' who strongly believe that breastfeeding is the ONLY option for a new mum.The group of teenagers she met while filming admitted that they are greatly influenced by what celebrities are doing and that they had never seen a famous person breastfeeding. It was also older mums who felt so embarrassed at breastfeeding in public that they would find some ingenious ways to conceal it."Whether we like it or not, the media has a huge influence on our cultural trends, and perhaps if breastfeeding was more visible on television, it would begin to lose its social stigma?" considers Cherry.PRODUCTION DETAILS:A RENEGADE PICTURES production |
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Broadcast 2011-11-02 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Breastfeeding -- Health aspects.
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Milk as feed.
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Mother and child.
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Teenage mothers.
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England -- London.
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Streaming video
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Healey, Cherry, host
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Michie, C. (Colin), contributor
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