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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:10:07 EST
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: formula costs for hospitals considering becoming BabyFriendly


Dear Friends:
    The cost of purchasing formula has been a barrier  that many
Baby-Friendly hospitals have overcome.
    For one thing, once formula is counted and people  using it have to sign
for it and justify its use, the amount used drops  enormously. People don't
take samples home for their friends.
    Other hospitals have found it cheaper to buy what  they need from local
discount houses, instead of buying it from the  companies.
    In other parts of the world, parents are  responsible for bringing in
formula, just as they bring in clothes and a car  seat for their baby.
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth  Initiative

            

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