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Date: | Fri, 3 Oct 1997 11:40:21 -0400 |
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Kathy -
<"Since bottle-feeding with formula is harmful to children's and mother's
health, and since seeing a mother bottle-feeding teaches children to view it
as a normal and healthy alternative to breastfeeding, which it is not, we
ask that all mothers who *must* bottle-feed their children do so behind the
screen in the corner, or in the private room down the hall, so as (1) not to
offend others in the waiting area and (2) protect young children from seeing
other children being fed in this unhealthy way.">
I loved your suggestion but I know it will never happen here. To give you a
little encoragement though, a few years ago I was visiting a rural postnatal
clinic on the island of St. Vincent, in the Grenadines, West Indies. They
are very pro-bf! I was asked to speak about bf to the moms and afterwards I
read all the WHO posters on the wall. There was a large hand-lettered one
that read "Any mother found bottlefeeding her baby will not be treated at
this clinic." Can you imagine that in a pediatrician's office in the States?
Instead of searching for a bf friendly practice, moms would have to search
for a formula friendly practice.
Cynthia D. Payne
LLL of Berkshire County Mass.
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