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Move Over Booties! Here Come Knitted Boobies!

Posted by on March 12th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
From England, a new and crafty way to promote breastfeeding: a competition in which knitters create faux breasts. The contest is called Tit-Bit for Knitters, and is a project of the Trading Standards, a government agency that oversees trade, consumer, and food issues, in the town of Wigan, just outside Manchester. 
 
Part of a larger governmental push to get more British moms breastfeeding, the Tit-Bit contest  has already attracted some attention, according to Julie Middlehurst, a spokesperson for the Wigan Trading Standards. From the article:
 
 ”It’s a bit of a joke
but there’s a serious message behind it. There isn’t a huge up-take of
breastfeeding nationally and it’s the same in Wigan. Around 15% of mothers in Wigan who start breastfeeding stop after a few weeks.


“We’re
hoping to get people talking about the issue. We’ve had quite a few
entries already, which are all different shape, sizes and colours.”

Any Babble readers who find themselves in or around Wigan can still submit their knitted boobies, up to the April 3 deadline. Winners will be chosen, according to the news article, for qualities such as “most eye-catching, the most realistic and the largest number knitted.”

 

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There’s also a trend of knitted prosthetics for mastectomy patients – a fabulous little store in Vermont that I know was recently featured in the newspaper about it.

http://www.reformer.com/ci_11807052?IADID=Search-www.reformer.com-www.reformer.com

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