Hi Lee,

 

You have made very important points. May I have your permission to forward
this to our of my colleagues, as she has an interest in definitions and
stats?

 

I realize it is difficult to design and implement a study with enough power
to ascertain the extent of the practice described - of women applying for
WIC food stamps claiming to be exclusively breastfeeding, and then going out
and using the food stamps to buy artificial infant milk. Does anyone have
such a study planned?

 

When statistics look too good to be true, this is often the case.

Virginia


Dr Virginia Thorley, OAM, PhD, IBCLC FILCA

Private Practice Lactation Consultant (cohort of 1985)

Cultural Historian of the History of Medicine

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

 


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