On 4/7/2015 1:02 AM, the juliest person you know wrote:
> Can someone take it to a food bank?  And then you can tell the reps that you took the unordered formula to the food bank, so maybe they'll stop leaving it.  Or throw out the extra.  And tell them that.

I am not in the hospital, but may be my office-based experience can help.

Even before I decided to go completely "baby-friendly" we did have a 
significant surplus of the artificial milks samples. We were donating 
them through the division of youth and family services to women's 
shelters (along with emphasizing the importance of continuation and/or 
re-establishing breastfeeding in crisis situations - but who would 
listen...:'( ). Unfortunately company representatives were not bothered 
with that type of "re-distribution", as we were actually acting as their 
accomplices, still spreading the message of acceptability of artificial 
milks as a substitute for the breast milk :(.

It took me about 2 years to stop the shipments from M**-J*** which did 
not have representatives in my area for ages, just mailing boxes. Would 
you believe - two years of refusing to accept the shipments and sending 
them back, until they finally got the message! R** and N** were much 
easier - just a couple of heart to heart conversations with the reps 
that neither them nor their samples are welcomed here. Both reps were 
trying to keep pushing their products for older children, but with 
exception for Pedialyte freezer pops (that was discontinued as samples 
about 3-4 years ago anyhow) I was neither recommending nor accepting any 
of their products since opening my office 19 years ago, so these 
relationships were easy to sever too.

AlIa
Alla Gordina, MD, IBCLC, FAAP

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