Sesame Street - Buffy Nurses Cody

From 1977, Buffy explains breastfeeding to Big Bird.

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[filmfreakish]

WOW! Was the clip censored from future airings?

[NantoVision1]

@filmfreakish No, it was never censored or removed.

[abracadaverous]

Ladies and gentlemen: the proper use of the human breast.

[bumblebee943045]

Pretty funny how our society says nothing about girls who wear cleavage-bearing tops, while "flashing" people in public, yet whine and complain when they see a woman COVERING UP HER BREAST to feed her baby. What's wrong with our world?

[KinCollector]

@jfpinell The LAW on indecent exposure was universally applied to nursing mothers. So they wrote a LAW to exclude nursing mothers from the indecent exposure LAW so they will NOT be arrested. One state's law said a woman shall not expose her nipple to a child under the age of 15 years. That's a little long to wait for the first feeding, don'cha think?

[KL0VERSTUDI0Z]

Oh, my mom is a LICENSED MIDWIFE!!! So, she knows what she is talking about... HA!

[KL0VERSTUDI0Z]

My mom breastfed me, she breastfeeds my one-year-old sister, and she's going to breastfeed my unborn sibling. Oh, and guess what else? My one-year-old siss has never had vaccines, and my unborn sibling will not get them either. I was, unfortunately, vaccinated, but that was before my mom got smart and learned what that crud really is. My mom is against circumcision and abortion. Mom also supports natural homebirth, and guess what? I'm going to follow that same exact path.

Problem, officer?

[douchechillum]

@abracadaverous Right after looking sexy, and being a catalyst in the production of said baby.

[Oakanwillow]

Wonderful clip! <3

[RDJudesie]

@JohnnyBlade68 Agree. Lots of things are "natural" but I don't want to see those, either. Oh well, at least we can just turn the channel.

[POPPASHANGO]

I think many people have a problem with breast feeding because they are associating breast feeding with sex. News flash! They are completely different! I find it amusing that showing a mother feeding her child naturally is offensive to people and yet showing showing a farmer milking an animal for milk (Unnatural in itself) is not only interesting, but educational?!?

Watch out, they may want to take children off sesame street all together because they were born which implies that two people ha

[DieHandDieWunden]

I agree, that was nice.

[TubeZoogy]

@JohnnyBlade68 Really. You put breast feeding and bimbo-cleavage in the same category. Were you raised in a small box as a child?

[username3585]

i love big bird :)

[MalchowMama]

Let's see. . . defecation is messy, smells bad, and can spread illness or disease. Nursing babies create no mess (not even a dirty bottle), smell wonderful, and are known to receive massive health benefits from nursing, as do their mothers. I can see how comparable they are.

[MalchowMama]

Big Bird said it best. "That's nice." I love how the baby reaches up and carresses his mother. I have never seen a baby drinking from a bottle with that kind of pure joy and love. I wish they would run new episodes that included babies being nursed by their mothers. Is it the intensity of feeling that is so evident in a nursing pair that makes people so uncomfortable? I'm genuinely sad for people who have issues with breastfeeding. Who compare it to defecation and cursing.

[xEmeraldCityx]

Before anyone jumps down my throat, I am all for breastfeeding.

However, it's the ADULTS who are uncomfortable with it and who need to be more accepting of it. Kids don't care until their parents say it's "nasty and perverted".

(This particular show has the wrong target audience.)

Secondly, in this day and age, we rely too heavily on the media to teach our kids.

TV shows shouldn't be responsible for exposing kids to breastfeeding the 1st time, nor the sole catalyst for a conversation about it.

[JohnnyBlade68]

Urination and defecation is natural too.. lets get one of the players on the commode and have Oscar flush for them.. oO... this isn't the sort of thing I want to see in children's programming, just as inappropriate having some bimbo flopping her cleavage around or some rapper cursing.. I can't control what is put on the program, only whether my TV will be on to show it.

[TheDarkSideHasTacos]

@doyouknowwhoiam23, it's totally appropriate. Why is it okay to use breasts to advertise everything from aftershave to phone sex lines but it's not okay to feed a baby when no breast is even visible?

[TheDarkSideHasTacos]

@MrAndersonForever1, there's nothing sick about breastfeeding. It's a beautiful thing for a mother and child to experience. It's kept the human race going for 100s of 1000s of years. Anyone with a problem with it can STFU.

[doyouknowwhoiam23]

is this appropriate

[TDog14126]

I'm sorry, but I think this is a GREAT way to show/talk about this issue with kids.

[TheDarkSideHasTacos]

4 people are mad that they weren't breastfed.

[DiabloDave363]

OMG THE CHILDREN! BREASTFEEDING IS SOOOO EVIL