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Salma Heyek and Breastfeeding Outrage?

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February 13, 2009
Salma Heyek Nursing Infant

Salma Heyek Nursing Infant

In a very sweet, very human moment, nursing momma and activist Salma Hayek nursed a week old starving African baby. The baby’s mother has a lack of milk supply and the infant was crying with hunger. The actress was in the midst of a humanitarian trip to Sierra Lionne, which has the highest infant (and mother) mortality rate in the world.

Heyek, a United Nations Fund Spokesperson, Says:

“He was very hungry. I was weaning my daughter Valentina, but I still had a lot of milk, so I breastfed the baby,”

Oddly, this act of kindness has sparked a bit of outrage over the incident. In America, some are stewing over this.

Dr. Miriam Labbok to ABC News says:

“We’ve lost the concept that breastfeeding is normal and human in the United States,” said Labbok. “In most of the world, it’s [nursing someone else's baby is] as common as breastfeeding” one’s own.

Which brings up an interesting point.  These types of quotes are usually directed at the US, is controversy over nursing mommas really the worse here?  Or do most just use the US to make a point?

Granted, I can’t recall hearing any type of controversy over the same out of anywhere else to any of my recollection.

So, I’m opening this up to you: Is the US really the worst with the whole ‘outrage’ over breastfeeding?

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