...and the "Maternal Journal" a calendar-like guide to
>pregnancy replete with pictures of formula cans on every page and an invitation
>to join the Welcome Addition Club.  I am just *appalled* that this journal is
>"endorsed by March of Dimes, American Diabetes Association, and the National
>Parenting Center."

Maybe the company is lying when it claims these endorsements.  Consider all the possibilities (as Eeyore says).  At the least, it rates a letter to the organizations mentioned.


I will, of course, be gathering all the
>tact I can manage to go discuss this wonderful gift with the nurse in charge of
>employee health, but I hate trying to start from ground zero with the "why this
>is not a nice gift but really a bad thing" discussion.

It does get so wearisome!  Does anyone have a good packaged talk on this?  We ought to make a video and sit with office staff while they watch it.