Thanks for this, Rachel - it's very revealing.

I was disappointed in the UNICEF Baby Friendly  statement - I don't 
think media relations are a strong point of theirs, though I love 'em 
for all sorts of other reasons.

It was good to see our own Royal College of Paediatrics and Child 
Health put forward their excellent spokeperson on this issue  - 
Doctor Charlotte Wright - who has been quoted in some of the UK press.

And equally happily, massive snows and an attempted coup against our 
prime minister plus a sex-and-money-scandal in Northern Ireland have 
dominated the news. I think Prof Carlsen's grandstanding has been a 
one-day damp squib in the UK.

I've monitored message boards and forums here, too, and it has really 
not created all that much of a stir.

So if his aim was to become a person on a European or world stage, 
even for his Warholian 15 minutes, he has not managed to do so.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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