----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: [LACTNET] Medela and marketing practices


> They can buy them at the drugstore if they like, but I'm not going to 
> promote or recommend them.

**I understand what you mean, Catherine. And yet: I cannot tell you how many 
women I spoke to over the years, who bought their pump from somewhere where 
there was NO information about bf whatsoever, and did not manage to properly 
deal with the equipment: bf lost. Especially in early pp days and weeks, 
people who want to rent (or say they want to buy, when instead they ought to 
rent) a pump, are those who are having trouble breastfeeding and noone seems 
to notice what the real problem is. I find this a dilemma: how can we fully 
stick with the Code (meaning not dealing at all with companies who breach 
it) and at the same time make sure mothers don't get crushed between the 
wheels of battling bf-promotors on the one and Code-breaking companies on 
the other side?

Regards,

Marianne Vanderveen,
VBN-volunteer, IBCLC2008, Netherlands

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