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>Hi Jeanette:
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>This was done in Britain during World War II, with National Dried Milk
>provided free to mothers.
Virgina, had to respond to this one! National dried milk - began in
WW2 as you say - was made for the government by infant food
manufacturers. This link shows that manufacturers were concerned
about the market share of their proprietary milks if too many women
used NDM:
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1940/sep/05/national-dried-milk
Note National Dried Milk was available only to infants over the age
of 12 months at that time. I am not sure when it became available to
younger babies.
This milk continued to be produced until the 1970s when it was
withdrawn. There was a 'milk scare' about the safety of NDM and
other 'non-humanised milks' which I can vaguely remember, though it
was years before I had my own babies.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/20408862
> While done with the best will in the world, other
>authors have found that it actually resulted in more mothers turning to
>artificial feeding - to use something free that was *endorsed* by the
>*government*. The implication, at least as seen by some of the mothers, was
>that it must be better.
I think the reasons why mothers used NDM are complex. Something
provided by the government is often seen as inferior - I remember
'National Health specs', which were the 2 styles of 'government'
spectacles available for kids when I was growing up (pink owlish
frames for girls, blue owlish frames for boys) in the 1950s and 1960s
and how my parents did really not want to burden my spec-needing
brothers with these obvious signs of being strapped for cash, and so
they paid for private frames.
Is there good evidence that women who used NDM (as opposed to
breastfeeding) really factored in the idea that it had to be better
'cos of being state-supplied?
There is no prospect of a return to non-branded formula milk in the
UK, but I would welcome it, because the product could at least be
marketed ethically.
Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK
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