Breast-feeding mothers settle for Kiwi record

Picture / Dean Purcell

Celebrity Petra Bagust and 656 other mothers missed out on their attempt to break the world mass breast-feeding record on Saturday, having to settle for a new Kiwi record.

Organised by Women's Health Action, the New Zealand muster at 35 locations nationwide fell well short of a 2003 Californian record of 1130 women breast-feeding at one time.

Joining Bagust at Lynnmall, Auckland, was her 5-week-old son, Jude Wilson.