(This article from the New York Sun looks very interesting.  I do not have an on-line subscription , so can't access the full article, but perhaps some of our New Yorkers would like to find the article)

A Formula For Hospitals

http://www.nysun.com/article/23670

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Months ago, I received an e-mail containing an article from Mothering Magazine, "Formula for Profit: How Marketing Breast milk Substitutes Undermines the Health of Babies." I relegated this information to the back of my mind because it has been 20 years since I've personally dealt with the issue. On November 15, however, my latest grandson was born in St. Vincent's Hospital at Staten Island, and as I watched the tiny newborns behind the viewing window I couldn't help but notice the tiny bottles of Similac in each cot. My daughter was attempting to nurse her son and I expected to see a water bottle in his cot, but this was not the case. Apparently, the formula is the standard fare unless the mother insists on water only. New mothers do not always know they have that option.
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Janice Reynolds

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