Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Berkeley loses its breast feeding record (Inside Bay Area)

BERKELEY — Just weeks before her retirement, Ellen Sirbu, the city's breast feeding guru, got some bad news. Filipino mothers in Manila had broken Berkeley's Guinness World Record for the most women breast feeding in a single location.

"I was happy for them, but I was upset that our record was broken," said Sirbu, the head of the breast feeding peer counselor program who helped bring together 1,130 women in 2002 to win the record.

News stories about Manila, which set the record with 3,738 mothers breast feeding at one time, said the event was organized to break Berkeley's record.



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