March 3rd is the day to see breastfeeding on TV. There are two shows, both airing on Wednesday at 8:00, which unfortunately for people with both channels means you have to choose between them. One is on the Discovery Health Channel in the United States and the other is on the CBC in Canada.
First of all, The Discovery Health Channel has “Baby Week” starting March 1st. On March 3rd a segment called “Radical Parenting” is airing. This explores what some consider alternative parenting styles, such as extended breastfeeding, attachment parenting and gender-neutral child raising. The special features real parents talking about their parenting choices and how they have worked for them. One of these families is none other than The Feminist Breeder who, with her husband, discusses why they choose to raise their two boys gender-neutral.
Also on March 3rd, Christine from Momzelle is going to be on CBC’s Dragon’s Den (USA has a similar show called Shark Tank) to help take her organic cotton nursing wear business to the next level. What I’m really excited about is that the business owner’s sister-in-law will be breastfeeding her baby on air to model the clothing as well as to show the world that breastfeeding in public (or at least in front of 1 700 000 viewers!) is normal, natural and nothing to be ashamed of.
I’m really excited that parents who truly value breastfeeding and natural parenting are going on national television to help promote these practices. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the media on both sides of the border will depict these parents in a positive light.
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I wasn’t going to blog about this, but since Gina aka The Feminist Breeder told me I should, I will. The other day (like 4 days ago) Discovery Health sent me an email to tell me about the show. It was a letter I assume a number of breastfeeding or attachment parenting bloggers received. I wrote back telling them that I knew about the show, had applied for it, knew The Feminist Breeder was going to be on it, and that I planned to blog about it but that I didn’t have the channel so unfortunately I would not be able to watch it myself. They wrote back telling me that they would send me a copy of the episode if I wanted. I was totally stoked!
Backing up….. in January I ordered my husband’s birthday gift on Etsy. I recived notification that it was sent out on February 15th, but by February 27th it had only just left Florida. (Why do they call it “priority post” if it’s obviously not a priority to anybody?) Needless to say, today is hubby’s birthday and he received a print out of the tracking number as his gift. But this morning there is a knock on the door and the UPS man hands me a parcel. What could it be? Lo and behold it’s the DVD of the Radical Parenting episode and it doesn’t even air until tomorrow! It took two days to reach me! In the future I think I will order birthday presents from TV stations.
And no, I haven’t watched it yet. No spoilers here!
Which one will you be watching?
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We just stopped getting Discovery Health and the BBC America last week. Now I’m even more bummed than I was from my inability to watch Gordon Ramsay yell at incompetent restauranteurs! I wonder if they’ll show the Radical Parenting episode on regular Discovery Channel or TLC at some point?
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I don’t get the channel, either, so I’m hoping to track down the show someplace else. Unfortunately, I didn’t get an email so no complimentary copy is coming my way. I really can’t wait to see Gina, I’m sure it will be fabulous!
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Melodie Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 2:00 am
I was waiting for someone to tell me they were dying to see the show but couldn’t. I will send you my copy. I just watched it tonight and it was great. Email me back with your address and I will pop it in the mail in the next couple days.
I’ve got PVR, so I’ll be recording and watching them both! Thanks for the heads up–I don’t watch enough tv to be on top of when things are going to air, so I’m glad you told us or I’d have missed it!!
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Hey p.s. I’m going to do a blog linkfest thingy on infants/kids and sleeping, do you have any older posts on sleeping I could link to? Or any interest in doing a new one?? I have a preggers friend who wants to cosleep but has some discouraging friends who are parents, so she’s worried. I figured a few AP voices would be helpful, and it is good for all of us to share our experiences, so we don’t feel alone when parenting gets challenging!
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Now I went to set up my PVR to record these. I found Dragon’s Den, but I couldn’t for the life of me find Baby Week or Radical Parenting. I tried for an hour! Can you help me out?
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@Melissa – Just tell me the date you would like submissions by and I will send you something. I’d love to help and/or write something new for you. As for the Radical Parenting show, do you have the Discovery Health Channel? It’s different from the Discovery Channel. Personally I haven’t looked because I know we don’t have it. That and I just watched the copy they sent me last night. It was really good everyone!
Hey Melodie – have you seen this at Eco Child’s Play?
http://ecochildsplay.com/2010/.....s-monkeys/
Best, Deborah
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Very cool! My family watches Dragon’s Den on a regular basis and I can’t wait to see Momzelle! Seeing breastfeeding on DD will be fabulous
I don’t get the other channel, so I won’t be able to see that, though. Thanks for the great info Melodie!
Dude, I wrote Gina from my email and she didn’t offer to send a complimentary copy to me! You must be special. She just said, Sorry you’re not a subscriber and, nope, it won’t be online. Maybe because I didn’t explicitly offer to blog about it. Sigh.
Can you send me a copy, too, or is that even possible?
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Can I borrow your DVD after the other ppl are done with it??! I don’t get Discovery Health, apparently!!
I’ll let you know re: deadline for sleeping post submissions…and thanks!
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HoboMama – I did not send Melodie her DVD. I don’t even have one!
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I have my DVR set to record Radical Parenting. I am so excited to watch it!
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TFB: I was asking Melodie.
But it does seem odd that you don’t have one, either. You should ask, for your own personal collection!
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I think I just got the PR rep’s name wrong, and that’s the confusion. I think it was Megan or something. Anyway! I’m not good with names. I’ll stop writing comments now…
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