The whole issue didn't manage to get any interest in the Dutch media. What did get attention was a very ill-worded Belgian research report that ''breastfeeding babies do not grow as well'' and conclusions that the WHO growth statistics do not apply to Flemish kids.

Warmly,

Gonneke, IBCLC in PP, LC lecturer in christmas-card-picture southern Netherlands


--- On Sat, 1/9/10, heather <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

From: heather <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [LACTNET] Sven M Carlsen's fifteen minutes of fame
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 11:30 AM

Thanks for this, Rachel - it's very revealing.

I was disappointed in the UNICEF Baby Friendly  statement - I don't think media relations are a strong point of theirs, though I love 'em for all sorts of other reasons.

It was good to see our own Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health put forward their excellent spokeperson on this issue  - Doctor Charlotte Wright - who has been quoted in some of the UK press.

And equally happily, massive snows and an attempted coup against our prime minister plus a sex-and-money-scandal in Northern Ireland have dominated the news. I think Prof Carlsen's grandstanding has been a one-day damp squib in the UK.

I've monitored message boards and forums here, too, and it has really not created all that much of a stir.

So if his aim was to become a person on a European or world stage, even for his Warholian 15 minutes, he has not managed to do so.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor, UK

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