Wow! New York City and parts of Oregon have gone bagless. What a  
wonderful way to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week. How can those  
of  us who live in less enlightened communities take advantage of  
this momentum? I think some of that will happen by itself without our  
intervention, but there must be ways we can help it along. The  
arguments for keeping bags are looking weaker and weaker in the  
press, to me at least.

In Massachusetts, we were the first to propose such regulations, they  
even passed the public health board, only to be essentially vetoed by  
the then-governor, now presidential hopeful. A plan to open a large  
facility of pharmaceutical/formula company in our state was announced  
shortly after the veto. Time for Massachusetts and others to "get  
with the program." When the regulations were passed without the  
section about bags, I was told that they couldn't go back and revise  
the regs at this point. What other ways do we have to go bagless?  
Should we work on individual hospitals rather than the regulation  
route? What have others tried?

Naomi Bar-Yam

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Naomi Bar-Yam Ph.D.
Executive Director
Mothers' Milk Bank of New England

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