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More sort-of off-topic ranting here....cleaning out the pantry... found some
old "breastmilk collection/storage" bottles that I've used for other
purposes (like spices, chopped nuts,...) that are from formula "gift bags."
Many years ago, when I worked in a hospital that distributed those bags and
before I realized I'd be an IBCLC when I grew up, I acquired a few extra
bottles from the nursery (or maybe from my very own gift bag that I was
given as part of the "admission" process. it was even on the checklist of
nursery nurses' duties, to give the bag to the mom. yuck). I was just
appalled looking at the little bottles with the white lids with the
name/logo/picture of the tiny bear (and wondering what that spice in there
used to be? ha ha), and promptly threw them away. But what really irked me
is that those bottles that came in a "breastfeeding gift bag" are only about
*2oz.* I have a lot of bottles for pumping/storing (the ones with the yellow
lids that came with my high quality double electric pump)-- way more than I
needed or will need in the future, that I use for other purposes too (V8
juice in lunchboxes...homemade blueberry jelly....my co-workers always got a
laugh out of seeing what I brought to work for lunch in my special
"tupperware" and joking that my milk is looking a little bloody or a little
blue today....) and noticed that they are *6oz.* Do you think the formula
manufacturers are trying to very subtly undermine the breastfeeding moms'
confidence with tiny bottles that are supposedly intended for
collecting/storing expressed milk...."you won't produce very much
milk...you'll need to supplement with formula since you won't make enough
milk..."
I don't know what are the current contents of the "gift bags" since my
hospital is BFH, but I wonder if the bags labelled for "breastfeeding moms"
still have such small milk containers in them. If so, it sends a powerful,
subconscious message to breastfeeding moms and they probably don't even
realize what effective marketing it is. Just a thought
Vicki Hayes in WA (and for those wondering about my last post, why I bought
nursing pads if I don't care who sees me leaking.... they are for nighttime.
we wake up in a flooded bed every night and every morning, between my
leaking, my sweating [love those hormones], Lachlan soaking through diapers
[most of the time pee, but now he is finally starting to stool
normally--yyyeaahh!!], and him pouring milk out of his mouth when he falls
asleep with a mouthful.... at least now that I'm wearing pads to sleep in
our sheets stay a little drier ha ha)
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