<sigh> Okay, here's something I don't enjoy remembering:  My father,
wonderful old Cuban pediatrician that he is (currently retired, but not at
the time of this story), basically doesn't know a thing about breastfeeding,
except that it's "best" and women should do it.  (He reminds me of something
I believe I once heard G. Palmer say:  that telling a woman that "breast is
best", but making it practically impossible for her to breastfeed is like
giving a starving person a potato and not telling them how to cook it.  My
dad once told me, while I was nursing one of his grandchildren in front of
him, that he's "too old" to be "seeing this".)  I was the only one of his 3
daughters to breastfeed.  My younger sister received all the formula my
nephew could ever want for free, for the entire year.  Home-delivered.

This happened about 9 years ago.  They had offered it to me as well (my son
was born four months prior to hers), but I declined :-)  Regina Roig Lane BS
IBCLC for Miami-Dade County WIC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lucretia McGee Bush [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 1:23 AM
> Subject:      Formula manufacturers and free formula
>
> Abbott Labs is a local manufacturer here in Austin.  Two women, one an
> employee and the other, a wife of an employee, both told me that if the
> breastfeeding did not work, they could have free cases of Similac, ready
> to
> feed, delivered to the door.  This is an employee "benefit".
> This is all heresay, I have no affiliation, etc.
> Lu Bush
> RNC,IBCLC
> Austin, TX
> -----Original Message-----
> >
> >I've always wondered if "their" babies are breastfed or abm fed.
> >

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