Wendi wrote:

  <<I live in the San Francisco Bay Area.  I see bottle feeding everywhere I go.
  I have NEVER heard someone say a negative comment to a bottle feeding
  mother.  I am sure there are rude people out there that do comment but I do
  feel it is an exaggeration.>>

The incidents mentioned in the article are so absurd as to be unbelievable--someone storming up to someone in a restaurant is only going to make an absolute fool of herself. I will grant that all kinds of bizarre behaviour is possible, but IMO this is creating an issue out of a non-issue, based uponm an unbelievable premise. By making the story about the horrors of rude behaviour and then creating an uproar over "guilt" and nudging us all to run to the defense of these poor accosted mothers, the writer has made a mockery of the very serious risks associated with artifical feeding. This is not a guilt issue--this is the single most important health care issue of our time and guilt is a smokescreen.
Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA

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