The story is not on line - or at least I can't find it.

It's in today's Guardian newspaper (UK broadsheet).

In amongst some reporting from Iraq, there is an account of 2 babies,
born within a few days of each other on the same street in (I think)
Baghdad.  They were born a year ago, and the reporter returns to
catch up with them.  The first baby is dead. He died after the
British army brought 'dried milk' to his mother, and the reporter
speculates that the milk or the water it was reconstituted with was
contaminated. There is no suggestion of course that it was
inappropriate for his mother to be given the milk in the first place.
The second baby is hale and hearty and despite the desperate
conditions of his family,  he is healthy and there is a picture of
him looking plump and smiley. I suspect this baby was (and is)
breastfed, though as you'd expect there is nothing in the report to
say this, though there is no mention of the dried milk 'gift' from
the army.

It grieves me that we are adding to the suffering of Iraqi families
by effectively killing their babies in this way. How is a mother
supposed to artificially feed her baby safely under the war
conditions of Iraq?


Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, UK

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