>Maybe I'm being overly critical as I know it is important to get the >message out that you can breastfeed and work too but >breastfeeding is breastfeeding and giving expressed milk is not >breastfeeding...JMHO. Whether the idea is good, bad, or ugly, mothers either must work or choose to work. The number one excuse I hear for not breastfeeding is "I'm going back to work so I won't be able to breastfeed" At which point they are amazed to hear that I am breastfeeding a 19 month old and have worked 12 hour shifts the whole time. (staying at home is not an option when you are active duty). Our society is not likely to change anytime soon in regards to women in the workforce and as you know babies happen. So, I think the WIC ads are a huge step in the right direction (anyway, knocks another lame reason to bottle feed off the list). Debbie Codding, RNC Naval Hospital Guam p.s. My husband bottle fed my baby EBM and I still consider him exclusively breastfed for the first 7 months of his life and mostly BF after that.