Esther Grunis IBCLC
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SYNCHRONIZED BREASTFEEDING WORLDWIDE 10:00 AM LOCAL STANDARD TIME around the world, August 8, 2007 Guinness World Record Ltd. just recently sent us the guidelines, insisting that only simultaneous breastfeeding in multiple sites may be considered for a record attempt. This and other considerations have made it necessary for the organizers of this event to devise a method by which each time zone competes with another to achieve the most mothers simultaneously breastfeeding. Therefore we decided that the whole world would compete by time zones to establish the Guinness World Record (please see attached Time Zones for your respective schedules). Authorized by Guinness World Record under Claim Number 191535 of Children for Breastfeeding, Inc. with Membership ID 139335, we decided that our Synchronized Breastfeeding Worldwide be attempted in one single day, August 8, 2007, at the end of the World Breastfeeding Week. Therefore, the Synchronized Breastfeeding must start at 10 AM (1200 GMT) local time August 8, 2007 at the International Date Line, at Time Zone Number One, comprising New Zealand , Marshall Islands , Wake Island and Fiji . Then an hour later the event will be continued in Time Zone Number Two, at 10 AM (1300 GMT) comprising Midway, Samoa and Tonga ; Then another hour later in Time Zone Number Three comprising Hawaii and Tahiti . Then (4). Alaska , (5) US Pacific Time – California , Vancouver, Tijuana . Etcetera around the entire world till (20) Thailand , Vietnam , Indonesia , China , Hong Kong , Singapore , Malaysia , Taiwan , Philippines , (21) Japan , South Korea , Adelaide , Darwin , (22) Guam , Melbourne , Sydney , and ending in (23) Solomon and New Caledonia . Thus, New Zealand gets its wish – to be the first and starting point of the event. Please see attached Time Zones for your respective schedules. The purposes of this Exercise are (1) To break the Guinness World Record for Simultaneous Breastfeeding in multiple sites (17,000 nursing mothers, soon to be credited by Guinness) established by the Philippines on May 2, 2007. We mean to do this not by pitting one nation against another, but to establish the record by international cooperation among those countries that belong to the same Time Zone. (2) To make a permanent and on-going roster of the national records of each nation on simultaneous breastfeeding in a single site and in multiple sites, urging each nation to surpass its own record every succeeding year. (3) To compare the efforts and achievements of each nation by standards based on population. Each nation will be judged by the number of simultaneously breastfeeding mothers “per million population” (pmp), thus negating the obvious advantages of countries with huge populations like China and India . (4) To provide a measure of how the Breastfeeding Movement around the world is progressing every year, and to achieve the numbers worldwide that will make all nations cooperate in reviving the breastfeeding culture. (5) To establish simultaneous breastfeeding as a form of universal prayer for peace and thanksgiving for the gift of motherhood and breastfeeding. The attached documents with this email are ready for immediate downloading: (1) Time Zone Schedules (2) The Guinness World Record Guidelines (3) Guinness World Record Breakers Pack (4) Registry and Basic Documentation Form The above may also be downloaded starting July 1, at www.breastfeedingphilippines.com along with the following: (1) Event Guidelines (2) The Universal Prayer (3) The Banner Design (4) The Suggested Program (5) The Suggested Script (6) Various Songs that may be made part of the Program. Elvira L. Henares-Esguerra, MD, FPDS, RPh, IBCLC, Director Children for Breastfeeding Inc. of the Philippines , Authorized Organizer and Initiator Sarah Amin, Co-Director World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, Malaysia , Event Partner Nona D. Andaya-Castillo , IBCLC, Director Nurturers of the Earth Inc. of the Philippines , Event Organizer The Breastfeeding Clinic: Your Partner from Pregnancy to Parenting (Managed by two International Board Certified Lactation Consultants) Nona D. Andaya-Castillo, IBCLC Elvira L. Henares-Esguerra, MD, FPDS, RPh, IBCLC Telefax: 632-889-1105 Mobile: 63-919-839-5555 Children for Breastfeeding: Mobilizing children to promote earth-friendly parenting Nurture our Children! Nurture the Earth! .
