On Mon, 30 Dec 2002  Phyllis Adamson wrote:
I understand part of the propaganda put out by the ABM Co's that make these
new improved formulas strongly suggest that the amt of DHA/ARA found in
human milk is unpredictable or unreliable or inadequate in some way and mom
puts her baby at risk if she has a "poor" diet lacking in these essential
oils. So .... the same ABM Co's that make these new
improved formulas as they strongly suggest.....
 - Hi Phyllis:  The saga goes on.  Only the product types change.  In my
study of postwar infant-feeeding advice (Queensland), in the
1950s/early-1960s one of the companies widely distributed a booklet to
mothers in maternity hospitals and, in the section on breastfeeding,
recommended that mothers who were breastfeeding (read: not buying the
products for their babies) actually drink the company's artificial baby milk
themselves, in the interests of making good milk in sufficient quantities.
(This booklet was distributed throughout Australia, not just in Queensland.)
Then and now, if they couldn't sell the products to feed the babies, they
hoped to sell it to feed the mothers!
     Then and now, I also see the underlying assumption that the artificial
stuff
is the benchmark, and human milk had better measure up to that!  Grr!
     Virginia
      in sunny Brisbane on New Year's Day
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