Gillian Tausend and her 10 month old daughter Noa center, ride the subway. Breastfeeding mothers and their supporters participate in a subway caravan to promote breastfeeding and to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week, In New York on Friday, August 10, 2012. FRANCES M. ROBERTS/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: lrphotos071050
By Frances Roberts and Richard Levine
Breastfeeding mothers and their supporters recently participated in a subway caravan to promote breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding mothers and their supporters participate in a subway caravan to promote breastfeeding and to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week, In New York on Friday, August 10, 2012. FRANCES M. ROBERTS/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: lrphotos071045
The subway caravan has been a yearly event since 2004 when a young woman was given a ticket for public lewdness on the subway for breastfeeding her child.
Mother, Rabia Khatun, left, watches Sherri Dillon, mother, right, breastfeed her son, Orion Dillion Montalvo, age 10 months on the subway. Breastfeeding mothers and their supporters participate in a subway caravan to promote breastfeeding and to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week, In New York on Friday, August 10, 2012. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced that city hospitals will be promoting breastfeeding and discouraging the use of formula. FRANCES M. ROBERTS/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: lrphotos071053
Since then the “lactivists” have taken to the trains to promote the health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding.
Containers of Similac Infant Formula are seen on a supermarket shelf on June 6, 2005. Unlike this market, many supermarkets are putting the infant formula behind counters to prevent shoplifting. Similac is the eighth most stolen item from supermarkets. In this particular market, not seen in the photo, is the only security camera in the store, trained solely on this infant formula display. RICHARD B. LEVINE/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: lrphotos021125
Recently NYC Mayor Bloomberg announced initiatives to promote breastfeeding in city hospitals and discourage the use of infant formula. And by the way, formula is the eighth most stolen item from supermarkets.
Richard Levine and Frances Roberts, of Levine Roberts Photography, are a husband and wife team of photographers covering politics, environmental issues, the economy, business, and social and cultural issues in the Big Apple. See more photos from their collection on Newscom.
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