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On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Pamela Mazzella Di Bosco wrote:
> As far as I am concerned, since it is the formula companies marketing
> that has put these babies at risk of death from disease and starvation
> in the first place, they should donate the entire need for their product
> and that should include all products in sterile bottles with sterile
> nipples for single use. Anything less is contributing further to the
> problem they have created. There is no way to clean the bottles, so
> ready to feed is not even good enough unless it comes with a method to
> feed it safely! And they should either continue to do so for the entire
> recovery period or they should cease marketing their product until the
> recovery has passed so the babies have a better chance of being
> breastfed and living through what is going to be the worse public health
> disaster in this country.
I totally agree, Pam.
> I am so saddened as I watch the news and see the babies being held up at
> only days old as a cry for formula! Lift your shirts mommies I want to
> scream at my television. There was a story of a mom being sent out of
> the hospital with her two day old and a suitcase full of formula!!!!!
> What on earth is wrong? Isn't it common sense that babies being born at
> this time MUST be breastfed? It is not about choice, it is about life
> or death. I don't get it. I am so frustrated.
My brother in law, brother and a friend are in coastal Mississippi right
now, handing out food, personal hygiene supplies, water, etc. bought with
money they have collected from our family and friends. I have been
wishing that I had gone with them just to try to encourage moms to put
their hungry babies to the breast!
Cee
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