a couple of things: World Breastfeeding Week awareness: Our WIC program collected handknitted baby hats in the shape of various fruits and vegetables (apple hats, strawberry hats, blueberry hats etc you get the idea)to coincide with WIC's nutrition message and to gift to the mothers on the program that are breastfeeding. Since I had posted the request on a very popular knitting blog the response has been overwhelming and to date I have received 125 baby hats from all over the world, the furthest being UK and HI. This has been a really fun promotion for everyone: the knitters, the WIC staff and the moms and babies receiving the hats. I plan to take some really cool pictures. Boston Billow Nursing Pillow An LC friend of mine who is not currently on Lactnet asked if I could post this for her. She (and I) have no financial link to the company, just posting it as a courtesy to the company since we posted here about the initial controversy. Thank you, lactation consultants ! GOOD NEWS! You may know that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in January 2004, issued a ban on the Boston Billow nursing pillow, based on a complaint from a competitor. *The ban DID NOT include the Boston Billow nursing pillow with the vipeable cover for use in hospitals (NICUs). The ban caused an uproar among lactation consultants and numerous IBCLCs wrote letters to the CPSC in support of the Boston Pillow nursing pillow. In July 2005, we submitted an amendment to the CPSC requesting that an exemption be made to the C.F.R. regulations the CPSC referred to so that “an exemption be made when the product is specifically designed, intended and promoted for mothers to use when breastfeeding and when requested by a pediatrician or a board certified lactation consultant.” In other words, that the Boston Billow nursing pillow could AGAIN be available for mothers that needed it, when requested by a pediatrician or an IBCLC. The amendment was published in the Federal Register, soliciting comments. According to a CPSC report, one comment was from Safe Kids Worldwide. They have never seen a Boston Billow nursingpillow. The other negative comment came from Susan Brown, CEO of the Boppy Company !!! In the end, the CPSC Commissioners, unanimously, voted in our favor to grant our petition. The next step in this process is that the CPSC will publish an “advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) in the Federal Register, again inviting comments from the public. This means that we again will need the great grass-root support we received from you, the lactation consultants around the country. We will keep you informed. S. Erik Skoug President Boston Billows, Inc. End of letter Hope all your WBW plans go well. Ilene Fabisch, IBCLC, LLLL, WIC BF Co Listmom wicbfnet and MLCANET Brockton, MA *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html