Saturday, August 06, 2005

WIC event celebrates breast-feeding week

"Do we have a lot of hungry babies here?"

The mothers gathered at the park cradled their babies and smiled, empty strollers circled like wagons around them on the grass.

"Everybody ready?" asked Sandi Storch, breast-feeding coordinator for Alameda County WIC. "Anyone need more time?"

"One, two, three -- latch!"

A bluegrass recording offered an upbeat "Bon appetit!" to the 32 babies who nursed simultaneously Thursday afternoon at Oakland's Mosswood Park, one of seven locations joining a mass breast-feeding event that stretched across Alameda County.



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