21,000 mums attempt to break breast-feeding record in Philippines

Thousands of lactating mothers simultaneously breast-fed their babies in the Philippines on Thursday, in an attempt to break a world record.

Being organized by the advocacy group, Breastfeeding Philippines, it was held around 1000 cities across the conservative and largely Catholic country, the Japan Times reported.

According to advocates, there remains a stigma in the country against women who breast-feed in public.

The group director, Nona Andaya-Castillo complained that public is okay when women bare their chest for sex in the movies or wear skimpy clothes but when a mother does the same to feed her child, it is referred to as gross.

The group aimed to break its own Guinness World record, which it had set in 2007 with 15,218 mothers breast-feeding simultaneously in multiple sites.

On Thursday, an estimated 21,000 mothers took part in the event, but it would still take the Guinness representatives up to three weeks to verify the final tally.