Kathleen said:  People will also have to pay for
formula if they don't breastfeed, even on WIC, so the issue of
affordability is not really the issue, I find.
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Unfortunately women say it all the time- "I can't afford to keep going back
to the IBCLC".  Maybe they mean in terms of time and stress as well as
money, but I think some women really believe it.  It's almost like paying
for formula is a given  cost of having a baby- after all, many speak in
terms of $$ *saved* by breastfeeding.  They don't speak in terms of money
spent on formula, or money not wasted on formula.  (when it's a voluntary
thing.)

When I read about dioxen level in humans, cows, the world, I often wonder
how much lower those levels would be in the abscence of formula
manufacturing, packaging, shipping and bottle feeding.  There is an
environmental cost to all that production.  (notice, I didnt' say "we save
all those environmental costs when we breastfeed.)

kate

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