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Berkeley event to try for mass breast-feeding record

By MICHELLE LOCKE Associated Press Writer
Published 2:55 p.m. PDT Thursday, August 1, 2002

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - In a city that has always kept abreast of the latest in social movements, hundreds of women are plotting the mother of all consciousness-raising events - a mass nurse-in.

The goal is to promote breast-feeding and break a world record. So far, Berkeley organizer Ellen Sirbu has heard from around 700 women who want to be part of the event, scheduled this Saturday.

"It is going to be a happening," says Sirbu, director of Berkeley's special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children.

The city is sponsoring the event and the mayor plans to help verify the count. The number to beat is 767, set Thursday by a group of women in Australia.

Mothers from down under, where mass nurse-ins have been held annually since 1999, welcomed the challenge.

"It's a bit of fun isn't it?" said Lee King, one of the directors of the Australian Breastfeeding Association. "It's really something different and something interesting but it actually is really good for the baby and it's a good way of promoting breast-feeding."

In Berkeley, volunteers from the Bay Area Lactation Association will count the babies in action and two independent observers will verify the record, which will be submitted to Guinness World Records.

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