I attended a birth this week at my least favorite local hospital, which
claims to be breastfeeding friendly.  Upon arrival, I noticed that every
nurse's badge holder said "Similac" on it.  I also noticed - even worse in
my opinion - that the visitor tags they assigned to people coming into the
birth center have a clip-art type picture of a woman with a baby in her lap
bottlefeeding!!!  These were tags that the birth center staff itself
generated.  And every nurse's scrub jacket that I saw that evening had a
baby bottle on it somewhere.   To me, this goes past "unbiased and
nonjudgemental" to pro-formula feeding.  Made me sick.

Jennifer B. Davis, ICCE-CD, CD(DONA)
Triangle Birth Network, Inc.
www.trianglebirthnetwork.org

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