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Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:48:15 -0500
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Dear Ms. Sklar,

I am sorry that you have taken the complaints about your bottle graphic so
poorly and so irritably.  You have done the right thing by taking it off.
But you didn't answer my question.  Would you have complained to me, if in a
website I showed a mother breastfeeding her baby in the car (not in a car
seat), with the title "You can breastfeed anywhere."?  Tell the truth, would
you not be irritated?  Might not you write a letter?

Well those of us who are interested in breastfeeding find that one of our
biggest problems is getting around a bottle feeding mentality which is
prevalent in North America.  It is this bottle feeding mentality which makes
education of pregnant women and new mothers so difficult.  And physicians
and nurses for that matter.

"You can't breastfeed an infant if that infant dies needlessly".  Cheap
shot.

Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC

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