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Sally Myer <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:01:19 -0600
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>>http://www.obgyn.net/newsheadlines/womens_health-Breastfeeding-20040318-39
.asp  "Key elements of the how-to program include recommendations for
implementing "mother-friendly" workplace policies"<<

Interesting their use of the term  "mother friendly".  Just think how they
would object greatly, I'm sure, to all hospitals in the US being "baby
friendly".  That's really what formula companies are all about....being
"mother friendly" (or at least having mothers believe they are),  but NOT
baby friendly.  Too bad mothers, hospitals, the general public don't
recognize that.

I wonder if a formula company would fund a program to promote
mother-friendly maternity care to be taken into hospitals nation-wide so
they (formula companies) would REALLY be "mother friendly"  (CIMS
definition:  http://www.motherfriendly.org/news/Feb2003/1st-nat-forum/)?

Sally Myer RN BSN CLC ICCE




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