Monday, November 21, 2005

Senate hearing shatters myths on breastfeeding (Manila Standard Today)

Who says the rich and famous do not breastfeed their babies?

Movie star Sharon Cuneta, Senator Pia Cayetano and lawyer Katrina Legarda are among the prominent people who practice or have practiced breastfeeding. And their profession didn’t prevent them from doing that admirable task.

Cuneta’s husband, Senator Francisco Pangilinan, a self-confessed member of union of husbands afraid of their wives has revealed that the megastar breastfed their daughter Miel for seven months.

Cayetano, for her part, confessed that she had a child who lived longer than expected because she breastfed him.

Legarda had also a touching story. During court hearings, she would beg the judge to call a recess if it was time for her to breastfeed her baby, and that of her sister, who met an accident and had to be hospitalized.


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