The Negros Occidental Provincial Health Office is joining a nationwide campaign on May 2 in an attempt at the first Guinness World Record at simultaneous breastfeeding at multiple sites, Dr. Luisa Efren said yesterday.

Efren, Negros Occidental provincial health officer, said the May 2 activity is dubbed "Sabay-sabay, Sumuso sa Nanay." The activity organized by the Children for Breastfeeding will have Department of Social Welfare and Development day care centers, churches and hospitals as official sites for the activity.

Government, non-government organizations and private individuals are being urged to participate in the activity, Dr. Elvira Henares-Esguerra, director of the Children for Breastfeeding, said.

"Our goal is to institutionalize simultaneous breastfeeding as an annual form of national prayer of thanksgiving for motherhood and breastfeeding. During the event, we shall pray as a nation for a safe and peaceful world for our children that they will grown up believing in God's infinite wisdom and generosity," she said.

The act of breastfeeding in front of our day care enrollees will inculcate in their young minds that breastfeeding is the norm in nourishing our children, Esguerra said.*CPG

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