Dear Friends:
    I heard that breastfeeding experts were not invited  to create the new Ad 
Campaign, because they would have been too nice and too  gentle. "Advantages 
of breastfeeding" doesn't alarm people; "Hazards of formula"  or "Risks of not 
breastfeeding" does.
    After being professionally slapped for posting  Linda Smith's 'Risks of 
human milk substitute' teaching packs in a hospital, and  for teaching clients 
in childbirth class that the choices they made in birth  would have an impact 
on the outcome, I chose not to speak truth in certain  situations. I wanted to 
keep my job. I learned to egg-walk so as not to upset  people, staff even 
more than clients.
    Suzanne Arms has talked about the importance of  speaking truth; one can 
do that with a loving heart. This is a way to make  change and preserve one's 
integrity.
    It is terribly difficult also.
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
Support the WHO Code and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth  Initiative

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