Susan Johnson commented a few days ago about this excerpt of mine from a
letter to Science News in 1993:

The World Health Organization and UNICEF rank
acceptable infant feedings as follows: first,
breastfeeding; second, the mother's own milk expressed
for her child; third, milk from another human mother;
and fourth, artificial baby milk. No baby deserves
fourth best, whatever the circumstances.

It's still being used by Peggy Robin as evidence of "what bottle-feeding
mothers are up against".

She took my letter out of context and entirely wrong.  I was responding to a
letter (which I can't find; it's here *somewhere*) in which an adoptive
father said that of course his child had to have formula.  I was empathizing
with him and saying that that shouldn't be the case - that milk banks should
exist to provide *every* child, regardless of whether or not he is
breastfed, with human milk.  Silly Peggy, I was on her side and she didn't
recognize it.  Maybe it's time I wrote to her...
--
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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