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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