This is a bit of old news by now, but I wanted to blog about it. Also, I promised Marina to give her more details so I’m killing two birds with one stone.

Several weekends ago Trev and I joined our Mom & Baby friends at the Ottawa Breastfeeding Challenge. This is a yearly event that is intended to make breastfeeding in public more socially acceptable and educate public on the benefits. Every year moms and babies arrive at malls across North America and start breastfeeding exactly at 11AM. Once you have a latch you raise your hand and nurses count the babies currently feeding. It is a bit of competition between cities and Ottawa came in fourth after Montreal, Quebec City and some place in Quebec I’ve never heard of.

There was an article in Ottawa Sun, and apparently I was in the picture, but they didn’t put the picture on the web and after a few days they removed the article as well so I can’t link it.

Overall it was fun. There were just under 200 babies feeding at the same time. Here’s a link to the final results. Quebec and Ontario did great, but where did the rest of the continent go?